Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
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I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.
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All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.
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Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.
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Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.
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It's a testament to why he's been here 11 years. I think this one was a little more intense. I just felt the conviction behind it. . . . When he says it a certain way, it has some meaning behind it and today it felt different.
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I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions.
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Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.
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I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly
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The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.
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Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
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People who hate often do so with great conviction. What we need are more people who love with conviction.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men's attitude toward women and women's passive acceptance of this attitude.
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The deep conviction we have is that trade does lead to development, and development does lead to better human rights.
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Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.
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To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
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On being an actor ....nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.
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It's tough to get any movie made, but unless it's a movie about race or culture or ethnicity, it's becoming less and less important who's playing what. You see that on the big screen and the small screen, and I think that's great. That's exciting.
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Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.
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In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
