Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.
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Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.
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My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.
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The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
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The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.
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Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
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Instead of saying, 'This guy is supposed to rotate here and this guy is supposed to rotate there,' if you see it, just pull the trigger and cover for that guy, and somebody has to cover for you. That's all out of reaction and you don't have to think about it.
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By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
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Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.
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The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
