Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I don't like controversy.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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A good fan base has developed around the Hurricanes, and I see the opportunity for continued growth for this franchise in the future.
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Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in the future. But conveying that knowledge now is rather like a chimpanzee, becoming a human for a single day to experience all of the wonders of human knowledge, and then returning to one's chimp friends and trying to tell them what it was like knowing several different Romance languages, the calculus, and the immense scale of the universe.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.
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I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!
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The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.
