Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'
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If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
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It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.
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Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.
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She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole.
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Loved people are loving people.
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It's a big disappointment. They just jumped on us. Once we started to get into any type of groove offensively or defensively, it was too late.
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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.
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When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.
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They're not kinder and gentler in the handling of prisoners; they think a bad guy is a bad guy, ... In many cases these guys are related to someone who has killed a police officer.
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Why kill good people just to get a bad man?
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There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
