Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.
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Fashion is a completely international business.
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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
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This is a show I've always wanted to do. I wanted to do this 15 years ago. We lived in San Diego and my church group there was going to get to do it and I had everything ready to go, but they didn't get the rights. They had to change everything at the last minute, and I've been holding on to the script and director's book since then.
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All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
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The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
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Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
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On all the peaks lies peace.
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I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.
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Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates.
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
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The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.
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As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.
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Unbelief is the greatest of sins.
