Benedict of Nursia Quotes
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.
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Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.
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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.
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An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
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We need preachers. We need men who believe that this task and women who believe that this task is so great that not all the strategies in the world can make one soul converted.
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When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing.
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I guess you shouldn't smoke cigarettes and not eat.
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Idleness is an enemy of the soul.