Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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Go West, young man.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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A true man hates no one.
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I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes that I wear. It's simple; I'm just me. I don't really go out of my way. I do make sure my face is washed and moisturized, though.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.
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If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.
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Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
