Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.
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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
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Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.
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Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.
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I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America with genocide, then built it with slaves. The shootings will continue. It's who we are.
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The light of faith makes us see what we believe.
