Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.
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I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
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The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
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The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
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And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.
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I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.
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The power of imagination is the ultimate creative power.. no doubt about that. While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand.. imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
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I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit. Look at Van Gogh's paintings: there's as much joy in them as there is pain. Suffering is only a single color, and by itself it's boring.
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I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.
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I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night in a storm the sea shouting that accumulates new sins and to the ancient makes recompense. I am exiled from your world of pride polite, by pride defrauded, I am the king without crown. I am the passion without words without stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war, is my same force that make me sick.
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There is a willingness on the European side to return to the negotiations. In November, there is another meeting in Vienna with all the heads of the countries that form part of the board of the International (Atomic) Energy Agency.
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If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
