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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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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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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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.
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Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the Mount: he is the light of the world, he is the salt of the earth, he loves his enemies and gives his life for them, he is lifted up on a hill so that the world can see.
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.
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If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.
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One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
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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.
