Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
Ted Lindsay
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
Natasha Richardson
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
Mallory Ortberg
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
Adam Michnik
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
Quincy Jones
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
Nancy Grace
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
Yami Gautam
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
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The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
Felicity Jones
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
E. O. Wilson
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
Earl Campbell
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
Tammy Duckworth
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If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'
Adam Green
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The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
Marc Almond Soft Cell
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
Tadashi Yanai
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You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.
Karin Slaughter
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
Tayari Jones
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Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
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I would use the power of procurement, I would say if you want to do business with the mayor of London, you must pay your staff a London Living Wage.
Sadiq Khan
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He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger to the ways of the Saviour, for as the Saviour enjoined us: 'Learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your souls' (Mt. 11:29). Now if a man abstains from food and drink, but becomes incensed to wrath because of evil thoughts, he is like a ship sailing the open sea with a demon for a pilot.
Evagrius Ponticus
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
Barney Frank
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Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.
Thomas Carlyle