Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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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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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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I just wanna hear my own voice.
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We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
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I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
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No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
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When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.
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I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.
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I think it's fascinating that clothes can drastically transform someone's mood or the way they feel about their appearance.
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Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul. Do not let newspapers, novels, and romances be read, while the prophets and Apostles be despised. Do not let the exciting and sensual swallow up your attention, while the edifying and the sanctifying can find no place in your mind.
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For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.
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Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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"That’s because our parents pick out our shoes,” said Patricia. “Just wait until we’re grown up. Our shoes will be insane.
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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
