Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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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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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.
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I don't think a young person ever really quite knows what's going on when their norm becomes going to the grocery store with sunglasses on at 11 years old. It's kind of weird, and I'll say it also went to my head the first little season, because that became normal for me.
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
