The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.
I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and lit...
The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.
As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.
Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.
In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.
I've never gone on a date... If I've ever had a man in my life, it's because I know him well, and he really means something to me.
Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
Well, my life is so centered around the people I care about, my animals, and my work.
My priority in life is my whanau, followed by my work as an artist, which has blessed me with the ability to provide opportunities working with others to advance the well-being of Maori.
How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.
Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.
The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.
