Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.
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I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
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I don't believe in the landscape.
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I was evidence of the theory that books are made out of other books . . . But I did not remain so for long, nor do I believe any potential writer could.
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Each boat is worth the price of a new university and they are watched by gin-soaked yachting types, male and female, in captain's hats lounging in deckchairs inside Perspex covered enclosures at the front of yet more expensive, floating country houses representing nothing more than elegantly vulgar expressions of dodgy wealth. The America's Cup.
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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...why did we wait for any thing? - why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
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Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.
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Revered monks and people. This public rally is aimed at informing the whole world of the will of the people... Our purpose is to show that the entire people entertain the keenest desire for a multiparty democratic system of government.
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There are some issues I'm more conservative on. As a parent, I'm concerned that there are so many young, young, young kids - like 12 years old - that are starting to have sex.
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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.
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It is neither a great praise nor a great blame when people say a tendency is in or out of fashion. If a tendency is as it should be at one time, it is always as it should be.
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Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there’s that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it’s like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it’s rather tedious to fill in the branches…
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Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.
