Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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I try and be a little bit chic. I wouldn't wear sweatpants. I wouldn't wear a twinset.
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.
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I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.
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Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
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Even at 10 or 12, I was a hot, fast little cheerleader.
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It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
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Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.
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We are now committed to an unqualified art, not illustrating outworn myths or contemporary alibis. One must accept total responsibility for what he executes. And the measure of his greatness will be in the depth of his insight and his courage in realizing his own vision.
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There aren't many people in the world that are as respected and loved when it comes to entertainment and as big as Pac. But the greatness that I adore the most is him as a man.
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Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.
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All the historic precedents, the soaring graphs, the staggering statistics-these measure size more than substance. And the largeness and greatness of our nation would be almost a mockery-without a matching greatness of heart and largeness of vision as we look out upon the world.
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The universe evolves from the unknown, into which no man or mind, however high, can inquire, on seven planes or in seven ways or methods in all worlds, and this sevenfold differentiation causes all the worlds of the universe and the beings thereon to have a septenary constitution. As was taught of old, the little worlds and the great are copies of the whole, and the minutest insect as well as the most highly developed being are replicas in little or in great of the vast inclusive original. Hence sprang the saying, "as above so below" which the Hermetic philosophers used.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
