Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Tamsin Egerton
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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.
Ed Koch
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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.
Hannah Arendt
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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.
Karen Blixen
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
Isaac Asimov
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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.
W. Edwards Deming
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A teenager can find lots of games, but that's not necessarily true for adults over 30. As you get older, you desire more intellectual, emotional experiences. If you look at film, there's many different genres. No matter how old you are, you can find the type of movie you like. That's a sign of a mature medium.
Jenova Chen
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Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.
Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal
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When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
Brian Moore
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One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.
William S. Burroughs
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Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
Thomas Carlyle
