Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.
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'I've lost a day!'-the prince who nobly cried,Had been an emperor without his crown.
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Some there are who are nothing else than a passage for food and augmentors of excrement and fillers of privies, because through them no other things in the world, nor any good effects are produced, since nothing but full privies results from them.
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Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
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The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
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We left the door open for further diplomatic action with Iran. And I hope they take this opportunity.
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Since it is difficult to approve the reasons people invoke, each time we leave one of our 'fellow men', the question which comes to mind is invariably the same: how does he keep from killing himself?
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I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.
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Getting our affected Gulf Coast states the aid they need to help victims and rebuild communities continues to be our highest priority. Today's passage is the second aid package in recent days, and it illustrates one thing: this Congress is serious about doing everything we can to help local, state and federal officials respond to this crisis.
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It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
