Thomas Aquinas Quotes

To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.

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• I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

  

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• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

  

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• There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

  

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• I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

  

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• The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

  

  Hans Rosling
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• I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.

  

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• Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

  

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• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  

  Maya Angelou
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• Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

  

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• I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.

  

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• The existing program, as it has been developed in the last 70 years, provides a stable monthly income that has prevented seniors, almost 50 percent from falling into poverty. I don't think we want to erode the principles of that system.

  

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• We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.

  

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• Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.

  

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• I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.

  

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• I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.

  

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• And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.

  

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• I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

  

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• Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Or is it that I think too much?

  

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• To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Sin
  • Word
  • Glory