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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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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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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My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.
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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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During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.
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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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If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.
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I have always been spiritual.
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Today I think we are beginning to suspect that man is not a tiny cog that doesn’t really make much difference to the running of the huge machine, but rather that there is a much more intimate tie between man and the universe than we heretofore suspected…The physical world is in some deep sense tied to the human being.
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I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.
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Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
