Etienne Gilson Quotes
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
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I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.
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Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
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凡是敵人反對的，我們就要擁護；凡是敵人擁護的，我們就要反對。
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The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.
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There were…smiles of encouragement for Lydgate, and some smiles of sweet pity as well, as for the only leper present.
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The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
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I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
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We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.
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As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
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But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.
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Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.
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I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.
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Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
