Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.
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I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
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Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
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And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.
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Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n aw. That's it; end ay fuckin story.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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I know how it's gonna be when I die. It's going to be no noise, you ain't going to hear people screaming. I'mma fade out.
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Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion.
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My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.
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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.
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Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
