Nicholas of Cusa Quotes
Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
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I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.
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Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)
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I work anywhere between three and 10 years on a project, depending on the size. My lifetime is finite. Therefore, I have to look carefully at how many projects I want to put into my lifetime.
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My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.
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I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.
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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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I say my greatest strength is my speed, and I think that I could use some work on my concentration.
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Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.
