Thomas a Kempis Quotes

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

Thomas a Kempis

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I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

Andrew Stanton

StoryYouAlwaysDigLikeFelt

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

Andrew Eldritch

EnjoyStrangeRuleBritishBecause

And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church.

Mel Tillis

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Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

Robert Ludlum

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Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

Maureen Dowd

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As a mother I think you often get so caught up in trying to take care of everyone else that you forget to take care of yourself. But I'm a much better wife and mother when I take the time to take care of myself.

Mia Hamm

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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Doris Lessing

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I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

Anthony Holden

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I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

Alice Walker

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On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.

Alice Walker

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Even if we grade on a very generous curve, many Americans flunk when it comes to financial literacy.

Richard Thaler

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Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their hearts they know they are like those people who are taken for walks by their dogs, towed through hedges and ditches by an untrained sub-human energy.

Hilary Mantel

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