Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  

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• I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

  

  Tamsin Greig
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• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

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• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

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• The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

  

  Bayard Taylor
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• 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • World
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• I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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• You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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• If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.

  

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• It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.

  

  Young Thug
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• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  

  Edith Wharton
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• I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
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• If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

  

  Rachael Leigh
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• A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
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• It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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• At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

  

  David Novak
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• Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• Schlepping around from city to city is nothing I want to do.

  

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• I'm saying my rosary every day.

  

  Jordana Brewster

• Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Earth
  • Freedom
  • Sufferings