Thomas Aquinas Quotes
I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
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Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
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As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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I like to get real pretty.
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But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.
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'They find us outlandish,' Lopez admitted. 'Extravagant. Eclectic. Unfathomable.'
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I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.
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I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.
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I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.
