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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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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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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I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.
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Nebraskans have very strong opinions, but we sit down around a table and we solve our problems.
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Being myself is what got me to where I am.
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I've always loved the wild rumpus in 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak, because the words disappear, the pictures take up the whole page, and we move forward in the story by turning the pages.
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Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.
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It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.
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I think every person should go to jail once.
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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.