Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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I'm a serial monogamist.
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My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.
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The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.
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Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy.
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To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.
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Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.
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Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.
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I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.
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There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions.
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Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its darkest point one can be certain that presently it will grow brighte.
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I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.
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He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.
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In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.
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The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn't think it's a magic trick but is something amazing they haven't seen before? Then they have to wrestle with reality.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
