Thomas Carlyle Quotes
There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
Quotes to Explore
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
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I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.
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Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
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Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.
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'Smirking in the Boys’ Room', Rebecca Traister, The Cut, Jan 2016
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God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?
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When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
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A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
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Christ was born a man for me, for me he died - Unless I become God through Him, His birth is mocked His death denied
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
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There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
