Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.

- Leo


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An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE
These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value...
THOMAS PAINE
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES
Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w...
THOMAS AQUINAS
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
THOMAS AQUINAS
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
THOMAS AQUINAS
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the...
THOMAS AQUINAS
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of...
THOMAS AQUINAS
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a...
IRWIN THOMAS
I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
IRWIN THOMAS
I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
IRWIN THOMAS
I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS
People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
IRWIN THOMAS
I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
IRWIN THOMAS
I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS
Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS
When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS
I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS
Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS
All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS
I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS
We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
ISAIAH THOMAS
We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ...
ISAIAH THOMAS
It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into...
ISAIAH THOMAS
My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro...
ISAIAH THOMAS
The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run t...
ISAIAH THOMAS
It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys ...
ISAIAH THOMAS
Everybody wants to be perfect.
ISAIAH THOMAS
You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's wha...
ISAIAH THOMAS
I love what I'm doing.
ISAIAH THOMAS
You have to develop your whole game to completion.
ISAIAH THOMAS
It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
ISAIAH THOMAS
It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first....
ISAIAH THOMAS
My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.
ISAIAH THOMAS
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
THOMAS PAINE
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hen...
THOMAS SOWELL
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
THOMAS AQUINAS
I always get more applause than votes.
NORMAN THOMAS
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara...
NORMAN THOMAS
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS