Thomas Carlyle Quotes
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
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Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.
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For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
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No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
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A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.
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We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.
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Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.
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My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
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Appreciate what you've got and follow your heart and you're all good. Don't over-complicate things.
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Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.
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There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.
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The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done. ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment.
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In the Buddhist scriptures one of the qualities attributed to Right Mindfulness is called “‘non-superficiality,” and this is, of course, just a negative way of expressing our positive term “thoroughness.”
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Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.
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If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.
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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
