Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The American dream is about freedom.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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Belief is thought at rest.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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I've always admired people who are over-prepared. In college, I had a classmate named Norman Meyrowitz. One day he was giving a presentation on an overhead projector' and the bulb subsequently went out. The class thought the presentation was over. 'It's okay,' Norm announced . . . and he went to his backpack and grabbed an extra bulb he brought with him.
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In a democracy, a government’s policies are rarely questioned until the underlying assumptions that create them are questioned.
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Rules necessary for definitions. Not to leave any terms at all obscure or ambiguous without definition; Not to employ in definitions any but terms perfectly known or already explained.
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I want to decide between survival and bliss And though I know who I'm not I still don't know who I am But I know I won't keep on playing the victim
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'(In) Shanghai, if you want some pork soup, you just turn on the tap.'
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A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
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I always felt that I was not a part of things in general. I've always been outside of things.
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People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.
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He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
