Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
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New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.
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We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
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A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
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Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
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I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.
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Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.
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I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.
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I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.
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I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.
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We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
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It's like catching an ice cream cone out of the air because a child was hit by a car.
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
