Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.
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Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.
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The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.
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I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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I believe children's blessings are very powerful.
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It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
