Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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I got a big mouth.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
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Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
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If you take as your pattern the wings of feathered birds, these are more powerful in structure of bone and sinew because they are penetrable, that is to say the feathers are separated from one another and the air passes through them. But the bat is aided by its membrane, which binds the whole together and is not penetrated by the air.
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The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.
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In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
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If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.
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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.
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It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.
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The working examples of important new systems seem to have come either from entrepreneurial efforts (Visicalc is a good example) or from large companies, like Bell Labs and most especially Xerox, that were much involved with computers and could afford research into them, but did not regard them as their primary business.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
