Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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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'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.
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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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This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.
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There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.
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I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.
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Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
