Thomas Carlyle Quotes
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
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But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
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There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
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As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
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It is a strong castle, and strongly guarded; but there is no impossibility to brave men.
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Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
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In the fields with which we are concerned knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.
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This duality can be pursued further and is related to a duality between past and future and the notions of control and knowledge. Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it.
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Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.
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Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
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Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.
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I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
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It has a really timeless feel.
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That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
