Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
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Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
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Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
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What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
