Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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I will continue to try and be innovative to keep it fresh for my fans.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java.
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I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.
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La pobreza ajena me basta para sentirme pobre; la mía no me basta.
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I do have some Catholic stuff that is done from the perspective of an ignorant Catholic. But other than that, topic-wise, there's nothing really filthy.
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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
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Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.
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The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.
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That good diffused may more abundant grow.
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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Once, I was at a party...This was at a time when it seemed like I had everything. I was young. I was undefeated. I had money. I`d just moved into my own home. People at the party were laughing and having fun. And I missed my mother. I felt so lonely. I remember asking myself, `Why isn`t my mother here? Why are all these people around me? I don`t want these people around me.' I looked out the window and started crying.
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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
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If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.
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A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.
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A lot of times with novels, you can get a really deep, engaging story, but there's not a lot happening, frankly. Those books tend to be super-literary and dense, and they require a lot of commitment, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but if you want fast-moving action and gore and plot and excitement, you can get shorted on that.
