Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.
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A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.
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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
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Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
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I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.
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The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.
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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
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Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.
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I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.
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Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.
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These terrorists are the enemies of the Iraqi people themselves.
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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
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Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.
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The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence.
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I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.
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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
