Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist's hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
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My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.
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We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.
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Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing.
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It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist's hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross.
