Quote by Saint Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself f

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – Saint Augustine

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. – Saint Augustine

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Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. – Saint Augustine

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So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things Ive found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best. – David Frum

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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But its a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, youre not playing yourself. – Ralph Fiennes

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Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you dont have to make when youre writing. – Charlie Kaufman

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I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully. – Daniel Radcliffe

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Ever since Lassie and Old Yeller, I wont watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die. – George A. Romero

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World War II was the last government program that really worked. – George Will

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