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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There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.
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I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.
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Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
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I've been to some Hollywood parties where things have happened, and people have probably needed to get a good lawyer.
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It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
