Saint Augustine Quotes
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
Quotes to Explore
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I don't watch TV.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
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The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.
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We carry in our hearts the true country and that cannot be stolen. We follow in the spirit of our ancestors and that cannot be broken.
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If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
