Saint Augustine Quotes

They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

Saint Augustine

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• I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

  

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• I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

  

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• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

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• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  

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• I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

  

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• I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.

  

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• We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

  

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• Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

  

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• When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.

  

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• I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.

  

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• May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

  

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• Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.

  

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• A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.

  

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• To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

  

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• 13. It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.

  

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• It is not a little Surprising that Christianity, whose chief excellence consists of softening the human heart, in cherishing and improving its finer Feelings, should encourage a Practice so totally repugnant to the first Impression of Right and Wrong. What adds to the wonder is that this Abominable Practice has been introduced in the most enlightened Ages.

  

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• 'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'

  

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• I have sometimes thought that all professional lectures on rationality should be delivered while wearing a clown suit, to prevent the audience from confusing seriousness with solemnity.

  

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• When you go on tour, you get so pumped up to make more music, learn more about yourself, and grow more musically. It always happens.

  

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• Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

  

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• I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides of David Hasselhoff. He is like a protein, clean and easy. That's how I feel about myself.

  

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• Joy is like restless day; but peace divineLike quiet night;Lead me, O Lord, - till perfect Day shall shineThrough Peace to Light.

  

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• Keith Powell and Judah Friedlander are like brothers to me.

  

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• They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

  

  Saint Augustine