Saint Augustine Quotes

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

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• Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.

  

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• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

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• I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.

  

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• I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

  

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• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

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• You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

  

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• Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.

  

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• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

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• I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

  

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• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

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• I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.

  

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• By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

  

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• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

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• This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

  

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• Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

  

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• New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

  

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• Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.

  

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• Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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• So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

  

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• Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Wisdom