Thomas Carlyle Quotes
We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.
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Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.
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How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until he's made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaida. Is that the point at which you say, "This guy is dangerous?" That's not a crime to call up al-Qaida, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy?
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Thank God, I think no one is thinking of unleashing a large-scale conflict with Russia. I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
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I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. I am no where near as much of that as Bob Dylan. But when your antenna is up you are pretty fixated and there is not much room in your life for anything else.
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I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh and happiness high up. The only way to leave even the smallest trace. So that all his life her son would feel gladness unaccountably when anyone spoke of the ruined city of steel in America. Each time almost remembering something maybe important that got lost.
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I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.
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It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
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War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.
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The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'
