Saint Augustine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
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For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.
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You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep questions about why we feel the way we feel about things, or why we think of ourselves in certain ways - questions that have been in the realm of psychology and philosophy but have been very difficult to get a firm mechanistic laws-of-physics grasp on.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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There's an oft-used shorthand for the technologist's view of the world. It is assumed that libertarianism dominates Silicon Valley, and that isn't wholly wrong. High-profile devotees of Ayn Rand can be found there.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
