Francis of Assisi Quotes
Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
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I always look forward, not back.
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If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
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I wrote 'Snowy' as a result of spending a week on a narrow boat with daily classes of children, helping them to write about canal life, the work of barges, the simple pleasure of watching the water creatures. There was no doubt that the star of their week was Snowy, the working barge horse who pulled us daily along the towpath.
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I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with where we're at. We're not dogmatic or impervious to a further argument, that's why we released it as an exposure draft rather than simply releasing it straight into the parliament.
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Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home.
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This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.
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Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
