Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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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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We had a blowout on our hands in the third quarter and we never recovered from that.
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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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Real affection comes from the face. Those political leaders, when they meet, they are always hugging, but not very genuine. Deep, sincerity comes from face and eye.
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I wouldn't be a very good hunter without these glasses. I'm not a very good hunter with these glasses, but I'd be even worse without them, so that would put a crimp in how many kids I could have, so all of these medical advances have at least in some parts of the world blunted natural selection.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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The social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
