Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
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I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.
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A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
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You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.
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I never was a caterer, but I did deliver pizzas.
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All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.
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If you were to find all the people I've worked with and ask them what they think of me, they're all just going to say, 'Oh, wonderful', and it'll just be a lot of blah.
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Agathon: One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace. (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 2, p. 278) (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
