Thomas Aquinas Quotes
He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
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Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
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I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
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And your work reflects a tradition that runs through our history - a belief that we’re greater together than we are on our own. And that’s what I’ve come here to talk about today.
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The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enough to take everything you have and give it to someone else.
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Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values-inexperienceable-which we serve.
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They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.
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German law takes precedence over sharia. The full face veil should be banned, wherever legally possible.
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It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
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I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.
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As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.
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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
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As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
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Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
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He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.
