Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.
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There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.
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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all; And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere.
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To virgin minds, which yet their native whiteness hold,Not yet discoloured with the love of gold(That jaundice of the soul,Which makes it look so gilded and so foul)
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Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.
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The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other; and with them this conviction does not spring from that barren traditionary faith which seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to live.
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Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.
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From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.
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I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems.
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The advent of Kindle, the iPad, and other portable reading devices has so far simply resulted in turning analog print into digital print while keeping the same linear prose format.
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Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
