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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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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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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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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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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By promoting justice and thus the interests of the international community as a whole, a state will be able to make its influence over others sustainable and achieve its own national interest.
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Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.
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The sight of burnt orange makes me puke.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
