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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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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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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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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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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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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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 am a common man. Why do I need security?
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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I think in the [Bill] Clinton era, if people hadn't been spending vast amounts of time attacking Clinton, they would have found that they had essentially the same problems as they do now.
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My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming-and-becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn't become about me anymore.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
