Brigit of Kildare Quotes
You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory.
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Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.
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Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.
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A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.
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'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.
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I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.
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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
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I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.
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It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.
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It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
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There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage of our pioneers to settle the American west, which is why President Abraham Lincoln passed a Homestead Act giving a tract of land to anyone seeking a stake in our growing economy.
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I know different ways of looking at things. I have my stockholders, and I feel a very keen responsibility to the shareholders, but I feel that the main responsibility I have to them is to have the stock appreciate. And you only have it appreciate by reinvesting as much as you can back in the business. And that's what we've done... and that has been my philosophy on running the business.
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Listen to many, speak to a few.
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Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.
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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
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You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory.
