Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
Quotes to Explore
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.
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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
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Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
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When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.
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Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
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There are few people in this world with whom I can converse.
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Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.
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A dark object seen against a bright background will appear smaller than it is. A light object will look larger when it is seen against a background darker than itself.
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Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.
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The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.
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Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
