Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
Quotes to Explore
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.
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To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.
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I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
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When a governor asks you to come and serve... or a president, subsequently in my life - you do so.
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We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.
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I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.
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The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Too many bands are scared to show emotions these days. They seem to think it’ll stop them being cool or something. We’ve never been cool. We’ve always been into emotionally charged music.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.
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If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
