Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
Quotes to Explore
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.
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She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.
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Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.
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It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.
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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
