Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.
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I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
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If it is something that is right for human beings, then I don't care if other people criticize. You cannot please everyone in the world.
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Everything in food works together to create health or disease.
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
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I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.
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Don't let your excuses stand in the way of achieving your dreams
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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
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Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
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Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.
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The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
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I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
