Thomas Carlyle Quotes
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
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I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
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I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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I think basically an actor is a salesman.
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Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't.
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Our soul, our true self, is the most mysterious, essential, and magical dimension of our being. In fact, it is not a separate reality, as traditional Western thought views it, but the cohesive force that unites our body, heart, and mind. It is not a ghost trapped somehow in the physical machinery of our body but the very essence of our being.
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'For a word to be spoken,' Ged answered slowly, 'there must be silence. Before, and after.' Then all at once he got up, saying, 'I have no right to speak of these things. The word that was mine to say I said wrong. It is better that I keep still; I will not speak again. Maybe there is no true power but the dark.'
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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
