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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The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.
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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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I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.
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And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.
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That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.
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Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
