Thomas Carlyle Quotes
High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
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I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.
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I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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I'm a flawed character... I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times.
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We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
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I'd have sex with a number of the Muppets. I just don't talk about it publicly. It's private. Although a hint is, that there was a character in Elmo in Grouchland who was called 'My Lady' and that's all I'll say.
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Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.
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The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.
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There is no doubt that Boulder was a supportive and open-door community well before TechStars ever existed. But one of the things that I'm most proud of is that TechStars has provided a real focal point for this sort of activity and has brought attention to just how impactful one community can be when it works together.
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If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.
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High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
