Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.
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Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
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In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.
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Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.
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I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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in the unliterary grammar of life, where the future tense stands first, and the past is formed, not from the indefinite, but from the present indicative, 'to have been' is 'to be'.
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Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
