Saint Augustine Quotes
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
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The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.
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Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
