Benedict of Nursia Quotes
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett
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My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.
Hannah Ware
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
Aaron Paul
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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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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Walter Kohn
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
Xavier Becerra
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I went to the opening of 'Sister Act,' and I had such a great time. I had no idea what it was about, and I had never seen the movies. But I heard the show went through some major last-minute craziness in previews, and man, opening night was really fun and really entertaining.
Aaron Lazar
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
Ted Allen
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I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.
Gail Simmons
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Kant ... stated that he had 'found it necessary to deny knowledge … to make room for faith,' but all he had 'denied' was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.
Hannah Arendt
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A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
L. Ron Hubbard
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But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.
J. D. Salinger
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To us, anyone who opposes dictatorship is our friend. Those who support it, our enemy.
Li Lu
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The Greater Soul moves in only one direction, and that is to bring into union that which has been made separate.
Bert Hellinger
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
Paddy Chayefsky
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What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
John Ciardi
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Idleness is an enemy of the soul.
Benedict of Nursia
