Thomas a Kempis Quotes

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Thomas a Kempis

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I think we need a Muslim 'Bachelor' or 'Bachelorette.' I think that's what would be the great equalizer, and that would change everything.

Maysoon Zayid

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If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or a journalist. But I'm happy being a comedian.

John Oliver

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To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Max Beerbohm

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When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.

Amity Gaige

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After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

Rudolph A. Marcus

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'Touched by an Angel' started my calling to be the messenger, and on a weekly basis, I was able to deliver the message of God's love to the world.

Roma Downey

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Everybody you work with has their own voice, and if you do your job well enough, even their closest friends or their partner of 40 years isn't going to recognise the fingerprints of a ghostwriter.

Michael Robotham

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If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.

Jonathan Franzen

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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

Dick Cavett

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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

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I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores.

Dorothea Dix

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Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.

Brandon Thomas

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