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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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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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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Why was his hair tinted with gold? An evil omen was golden hair in my life. Why had not the brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue? - for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.
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His (Deschamps’) complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.
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The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.
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It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.
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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.
