Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Fundamentals make the market.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.
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Computers make me totally blank out.
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If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.
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Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.
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Nothing matters except life and the love you make.
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I was trying my best to calm everybody down, because we're going to make mistakes. We've just got to be a little bit smarter with the ball.
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I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
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We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.
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Each material is only what we make it.
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I would make sweet love to Don Rickles.
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Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.
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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
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We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." It's about letting God's light shine through us. It's about a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects. To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper. Quite the contrary, it's when we truly become bright. We're letting our own light shine.
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I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should at least be room for conversation.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
