Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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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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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that?
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When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.
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Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.
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What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
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Love not Pleasure; love God.
