Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'
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Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.
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I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.
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Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
