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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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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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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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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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 appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.
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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
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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.
