Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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THE HEART'S DEAD ARE NEVER BURIED.
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My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
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You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.
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I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.
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We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.
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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
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I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
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Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
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Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
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My early influences I'd say were, well, just about all the old great masters like Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, naturally Charlie Parker and quite a few others that are still around like Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Illinois Jacquet and of course my great friend Dexter Gordon.
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You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.
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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
