Saint Augustine Quotes
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
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Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
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One thing about having children is that even as it complicates many aspects of your life, it simplifies others.
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We all grew up as huge wrestling fans, and we need to understand why we liked it so much.
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Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
