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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I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.
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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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Anderson [Cooper]first of all, in case anybody's wondering because they'll somehow read my mind after this broadcast ... I find those comments to be disgusting and reprehensible, and I'm really glad that he apologized.
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I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
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Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.
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The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.
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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.
