Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
Quotes to Explore
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I would love to do some theater.
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There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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The ideals of liberalism have been divorced from any realities of modern social structure that might serve as the means of their realization. ... The detachment of liberalism from the facts of a going society make it an excellent mask for those who do not, cannot, or will not do what would have to be done to realize its ideals.
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The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
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I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.
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Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism…
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At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
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I sort of spend every moment that I'm not working doing things with my son. You do the best you can, and you make the most of the time you have.
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Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.
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Say not, 'I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have found the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
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I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for.
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...Laura knew the price of motherhood to be pain and responsibility; the reward, love and pride.
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Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
