Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
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In middle school, I had a teacher who regularly reminded students of the Monday night Young Life meetings he sponsored; on Tuesdays, he'd spend the first few minutes of class palling around with the chosen ones about all the fun and fellowship they'd experienced together.
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I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.
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I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city.
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When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn't do anything about it.
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She said, 'Spell 'ant' ', and I wrote out the entire alphabet. She said, 'That doesn't spell 'ant' ', and I said, 'It's in there somewhere! There's the A, there's the N, there's the T – the rest are silent!'
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A good society is a society which believes that it is not good enough; that it is the task of the collectivity to insure individuals against individually suffered misfortune; and that the quality of society is measured by the quality of life of its weakest, just like the carrying power of a bridge is measured by its weakest pillar.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
