Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.
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Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.
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The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools.
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
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All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.
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The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all best things are thus confused to ill. Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live among their suffering fellow-men As if none felt: they know not what they do.
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.
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When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
