Saint Augustine Quotes
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.
Quotes to Explore
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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I affirm, therefore, that our present position is one of apostasy; and to give the ballot to the negro will be no innovation, but a return to the old paths, a restoration of that spirit of liberty to which the sufferings and sacrifices of the Revolution gave birth.
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America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.
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My speed is my greatest asset.
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We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
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The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.
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Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.
