Thomas Carlyle Quotes
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.
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Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.
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When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.
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I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.
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I enjoy bathing, as many Europeans don't.
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We're exposed and carry in our bodies multiple chemicals, and we have to understand how they interact. Both how they individually interact and the thousands of effects they can produce when they interact with the receptors that run our bodies.
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Include yourself in any reproof.
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That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
