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Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.
josef pieper— pp. 106–107
If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.
karl marx— Vol. I, Ch. 11, pg.336
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowski— 1967 Tales of Ordinary Madness,'Too Sensitive'.
Ever since the Republican landslide on Nov 8, it's been getting dark outside a little earlier every day.You notice that?
— 1994 In the NewYork Times,17 Dec.
The most Devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure.
Marjory Fleming— 1810 'Journal 2' in F Sidgwick (ed) The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).
She would write 8 or10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.
— 1979 On his wife and fellow editor Katharine S White. Onward and Upward in the Garden.
Anyway, Big Brother 7: that was that. Big Brother 8 is scheduled to take place in the glowing centre of an irradiated war-torn wasteland formerly known as Earth. See you there.
charlie brooker— The Guardian, 12 August 2006 [24]
We've got 8 points from 4 games. That's automatic promotion form.
phil brown— 15-Dec-2005, Radio Derby
— An optimistic extrapolation.
The band? It's over. Reunited because of the good cause (Live 8), to get over the bad relationship, and not to have regrets.
david gilmour— Ruling out the possibility of a permanent reunion of Pink Floyd in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica (February 2006)
Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.
chris hedges— What Every Person Should Know About War
On this tragic day, the death of Adolf Hitler was reported - Admiral Dönitz takes over as his nominated successor. Reach Flensburg about 8. Have to drink wine for breakfast — as nothing else is available.
william joyce— Peter Martland, "Lord Haw Haw: The English voice of Nazi Germany" (The National Archives, 2003), p. 301. UK National Archives KV 2/250/2, p. 55.
— Diary entry, 1 May 1945.
If, in a few months, I’m only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I’ll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.
john mcenroe— On losing to Tim Mayotte in the Ebel US Pro Indoor Championships, NY Times (February 9, 1987)
Our producer Nick thinks it's a dance record, and who are we to disagree? Don't be alarmed though, we won't be donning face masks and Gore-Tex like Altern 8, or dancing like electric monkeys. Apart from Lukas (Wooller, keyboards).
paul smith— NME
Yet if heretics be altogether uprooted by death, this is not contrary to Our Lord's command [in Matthew 13:30], which is to be understood as referring to the case when the cockle [weeds] cannot be plucked up without plucking up the wheat, as we explained above (10, 8, ad 1), when treating of unbelievers in general.
thomas aquinas— II-II, q. 11, art. 3, ad. 3
Already you're on Page 8.
gwendolyn brooks— "Thinking of Elizabeth Steinberg"
You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— 17 March 1833.
No pleasure is in itself evil , but the things which produce certain pleasures entail annoyances many times greater than the pleasures themselves. (8)
epicurus— Variant translation: No pleasure is itself a bad thing, but the things that produce some kinds of pleasure, bring along with them unpleasantness that is much greater than the pleasure itself.
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
gloria estefan— To beginning readers (ages 4 to 8) at a reading of "Noelle's Treasure Tale" at book signing at Macy's in New York City (Novemeber 21, 2006
The Gorbachev Foundation TIME 100:;: Mikhail Gorbachev Green Cross International official site Profile at the Nobel Prize site MikhailGorbachev.org "Out in the Cold" interview in The Guardian (8 March 2005) CNN Cold War Profile: Mikhail Gorbachev (1998)
mikhail gorbachev— September 1997 interview
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Peter Greenaway— Kito counting
I was 8 or 9 when I had a sighting of a disk-shaped craft that convinced me that it was certainly not an airplane or anything conventional.
steven m. greer— Greer describing a close encounter he had with a UFO.
Pour exécuter de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir. 8 To accomplish great things we must live as though we had never to die.
vauvenargues, luc de clapiers, marquis de— p.172. (Reflections and Maxims (1746))
The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.
larry wall— Usenet article <199710221859.LAA24889@wall.org> (1997)
My Brother William was married to Mary Hutchinson…At a little after 8 o'clock I saw them go down the avenue towards the Church. William had parted from me upstairs. [ deleted : I gave him the wedding ring – with how deep a blessing! I took it from my forefinger where I had worn it the whole of the night before – he slipped it again onto my finger and blessed me fervently].
dorothy wordsworth— October 4, 1802
The Srimad Bhagavatam teaches nine primary forms of bhakti , as explained by Prahlada as:(1) ?rava?a ("listening" to the scriptural stories of K???a and his companions), (2) k?rtana ("praising," usually refers to ecstatic group singing), (3) smara?a ("remembering" or fixing the mind on Vi??u), (4) p?da-sevana (rendering service), (5) arcana (worshiping an image), (6) vandana (paying homage), (7) d?sya (servitude), (8) s?khya (friendship), and (9) ?tma-nivedana (complete surrender of the self ).
— Bhagavata Purana (from Bhagavata Purana, 7.5.23-24) quoted in Acting as a Way of Salvation: A Study of R?g?nug? Bhakti S?dhana, p.133
It is even because the 2 times table it goes 0, 2, 4, 6, 8.
— Carly, Year 5, UK
Mike and Donna Henderson, onetime Scientologists from Clearwater, were victims of this culture. OT 7 and OT 8 respectively, they were nearly bankrupted by their involvement with the church. Today they are two of a growing number of ex-Scientologists who predict that in these dark economic times, Scientology's "unvarnished demand for money", as Mike puts it, may lead to its demise.
— Janet Reitman (2011). Inside Scientology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 184, 349. ISBN 0618883029.
The Bhagavata Purana teaches nine primary forms of bhakti, as explained by [[w:Prahlada|Prahlada as:(1) ?rava?a ("listening" to the scriptural stories of K???a and his companions), (2) k?rtana ("praising," usually refers to ecstatic group singing), (3) smara?a ("remembering" or fixing the mind on Vi??u), (4) p?da-sevana (rendering service), (5) arcana (worshiping an image), (6) vandana (paying homage ), (7) d?sya ( servitude ), (8) s?khya ( friendship ), and (9) ?tma-nivedana (complete surrender of the self ).
— Bhagavata Purana (from Bhagavata Purana, 7.5.23-24) quoted in Acting as a Way of Salvation: A Study of R?g?nug? Bhakti S?dhana, p.133
Nii Taka Yama Nobore 1208. (Execute the Hawaii operation on December 8 [Japanese time]).
— Message sent by Japanese Imperial Navy Headquarters to the carrier fleet approaching Pearl Harbor (2 December 1941).[ ]
