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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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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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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If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.
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We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.
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C has the power of assembly language and the convenience of … assembly language.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
