Nicholas of Cusa Quotes
In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him.
Garry Kasparov -
My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
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If only she could have held on to that day, held on to that moment forever, grasped it in her fists so it wouldn't escape. If only.
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I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.
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Let every creature have your love. Love, with its fruits of meekness, patience, and humility, is all that we can wish for ourselves and our fellow creatures. For this is to live in God, united with him, both for time and eternity. To desire to communicate good to everyone, in the degree that we can and to which each person is capable of receiving from us, is a divine temper, for thus God stands unchangeably disposed towards the whole creation.
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Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it. But affronting the sanctities of about 1.5 billion Muslims is permissible in the West.
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The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.
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Repentance is possible only when faith is present and where there is faith, repentance will also be found. Faith gives birth to repentance, and repentance is the evidence of faith.
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In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
