Benedict of Nursia Quotes
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
Benedict of Nursia
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
Samuel Hopkins
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
Barnabe Barnes
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
Ed O'Brien
Radiohead
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
Ian Mckellen
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
Taylor Momsen
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When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.
Cameron Winklevoss
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
Gary Sheffield
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I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.'
Garth Nix
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Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
Gary Hamel
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My paintings are always images of my whole psychic makeup. You cannot deny yourself. You ask, am I painting myself? I'd been a swindler if I did otherwise. I'd be denying my existence as an artist. I've been also asked, what do you want to convey? And I say, nothing but my own nature.. .I am nothing but an optimist.
Hans Hofmann
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It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.
T. S. Eliot
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You should stop asking your politicians how they’re gonna do it.
Rahul Gandhi
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
Clarence Darrow
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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
Benito Mussolini
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I helped deliver one of my best friend's children. I just was so amazed by my friend, because she was not just a woman, she was not just a mother. At that moment she was creation; she was life; she was God. And as I looked in her eyes, BOOM! Her pussy exploded.
Margaret Cho
