Thomas Carlyle Quotes
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.
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In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!
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I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.
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If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.
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But when you walked out of that building, you created a new history that we have to live in now.
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
