Benedict of Nursia Quotes
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
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We commute through computers. Spirits stay mute while our ego spread rumors. We're survivalists turned to consumers
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Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.
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3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.
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You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
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Some of us don't have the energy to be as incredible and riotous and fantastic as Emma Thompson. You're constantly just lapping up her incredible hilariousness.
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I was really enjoying one of the screenings of 'Beautiful Creatures' and there was this little 14-year-old boy sitting next to me in the screening and I was laughing at all the jokes and I just felt really judged. I had to keep it down a bit. It's a bit embarrassing.
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My entire life can fit into a knapsack.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.
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Most guys who define themselves as 'too nice' only behave nicely because they want everybody to like them and don’t want anyone to think badly of them. Don’t mistake being fearful and weak-minded for being nice.
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Should there be a question of returning or Of death in memory’s dream? Is spring a sleep?This warmth is for lovers at last accomplishing Their love, this beginning, not resuming, this Booming and booming of the new-come bee.
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It is time now for us to rise from sleep.
