Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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When I was five I had violin lessons.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
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I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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The first generations of Comanches in captivity never really understood the concept of wealth, of private property. The central truth of their lives was the past, the dimming memory of the wild, ecstatic freedom of the plains, of the days when Comanche warriors in black buffalo headdresses rode unchallenged from Kansas to northern Mexico, of a world without property or boundaries. What Quanah had that the rest of his tribe in the later years did not was that most American of human traits: boundless optimism.
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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.
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I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
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The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.
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I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.
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The believer speaks little and does a lot, whereas the hypocrite speaks a lot and does little. When the believer speaks, it is with wisdom, when he is silent, it is in deep thought, when he sees, he takes lessons, and when he acts, it is a cure. If this is the way you are, then you are in the constant worship of your Lord.
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The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise.
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
