Saint Teresa of Avila Quotes
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.
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I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.
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The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
