Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.
Quotes to Explore
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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Only a fool can't be fooled.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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If we want to transform reality, we begin with ourselves. We do not ask the world to change, and we do not fight against society. It has to be us ourselves who affirm our own values.
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For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love itself have rest.
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It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.
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...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.
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O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.
