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.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
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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.

  

  R. L. Stine
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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.

  

  Randy Pausch
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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
  • History
  • Broken
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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
  • Work
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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
  • Great
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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
  • Hate
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• You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • God
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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.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
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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
  • Good
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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
  • Dream
  • City
  • Girlfriend

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

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Long
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  • Silly

• I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Society
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  • Price

• He showed no fear. It seemed that, at the commencement, his race had known gods and no other. Gods had bound and ill treated and slaughtered and played with them. Gods were a fact, as were the sun and the shaking of the earth. Just another terrible reality.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Reality
  • Earth
  • Fear

• Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Freedom

• The only true world solution today is governments guided by true religion - of the spirit.

  

  Malcolm X
  • World
  • True
  • Today

• Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Story
  • Understood
  • Relate

• 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