Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
Sam Riley
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What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.
Barack Obama
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People know I was the last true champion.
Lennox Lewis
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What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
Euripides
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The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
William James
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
Isaac Newton
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
Isaac Newton
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
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A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
Wallace Stegner
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I think Hillary Clinton deserves to have people vouch for her other than members of the Democratic National Committee.
William Weld
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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
Sigmund Freud
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Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.
Witold Gombrowicz
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What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
Eleanor Porter
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We also have a lot of people who are not Dutch, and who are in Holland as a guest, whether they are asylum seekers or others. I believe if you commit a crime you overstay your welcome, if we could extradite you.
Geert Wilders
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For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.
Stephen Sondheim