Benedict of Nursia Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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I'm a plodder, not a planner.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours.
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I even have shoes that don't fit. They're just so cool, I wanted to have them.
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I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.
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I guess artists are living inspiration. There's something very pure about a person that fantasizes. I like hearing their stories, watching them work. Their take on the world interests me. It's not unified.
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Most website developers say an aggregator website, such as what healthcare.gov is, could be built easily for a half a million dollars. They have spent a half a billion dollars.
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To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.
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I'm so honoured and excited to be working in the business at a time when it's truly progressing.
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What I've found about 'Cinderella' is that what it provokes in an audience is really extraordinary. It appears to be a deceptively simple tale, but I've heard nothing but people drawing all different things out of it.
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Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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Many of the short videos on Vine feel as though they belong to an ever-evolving, completely new genre of modern folk art.
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And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.
