Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

Thomas Carlyle

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• L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

  

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• I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

  

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• Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

  

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• For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.

  

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• You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.

  

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• After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

  

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• People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

  

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• The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
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  • Reverence
  • Despise