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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.


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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become dominant in business is by making the consumer get used to your product.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to get along well with people is by learning never to expect too much from them.
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ST. AUGUSTINE Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
ST. AUGUSTINE Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: ...
ST. AUGUSTINE God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastin...
ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 The truth is neither mi...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He ...
ST. AUGUSTINE What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which...
ST. AUGUSTINE Picture God as saying to you, "My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and genuflect, ...
ST. AUGUSTINE My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan go...
ST. VINCENT The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.
ST. LUCIA To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD ST. I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking a...
ST. VINCENT Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completel...
ST. VINCENT Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues grat...
ST. JEROME I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, &...
ST. VINCENT What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
ST. JEROME And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, rig...
ST. VINCENT I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain...
ST. LUCIA If you want to build a ship
don’t herd people together to collect wood
and don’t assig...
ST. EXUPERY I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
ST. VINCENT It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
BERNARD, ST. Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
BERNARD, ST. I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD, ST. Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD, ST. Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
BERNARD, ST. The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD, ST.