Thomas Carlyle Quotes
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
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The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system.
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State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards maintaining our country s competitive edge. With a skilled and prepared workforce, the business community will be better prepared to face the challenges of the international marketplace.
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I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.
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You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.
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If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.
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We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
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"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.
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In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.
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No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.
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Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.
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Coming to Paris has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.
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So much of today's food is based on the exploitation of animals and the environment. Yes, it's cheap, but at what cost?
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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
