Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Thomas Carlyle
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
Wayne Kramer
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
Aaron Rodgers
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Change has no constituency—and a perceived revolution has even less.
Jack Welch
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
Wallace Stevens
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Before I start, like to make sure I'm smart. Gather my composure, rather my swagger and my couture.Pivot my fitted, then begin to rivet, with a change of lyric. In other words, I reposition how I sit it. Then make you feel it, like I mispronounced 'filet.'
Wasalu Muhammad Jaco
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If the meanings of true and false were switched, this sentence wouldn't be false.
Douglas Hofstadter
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If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.
Johannes Kepler
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It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds
W. G. Sebald
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I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.
Walker Evans
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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
Oscar Wilde
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For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.
Mary Pipher
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A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.
P. D. James
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In peace or in war I have stood by thy side - My country, for thee I have lived, would have died! But I am cast off, my career now is run, And I wander abroad like the prodigal son - Where the wild savage roves, and the broad prairies spread, The fallen - despised - will again go ahead.
Davy Crockett
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
Will Durant
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Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Thomas Carlyle
