Saint Augustine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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La maladie est le plus écouté des médecins: à la bonté, au savoir on ne fait que promettre; on obéit à la souffrance.5
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Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.
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Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
