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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: scottish
Birth: December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

Topics

Silence Learn Speech Dead Human

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Organization Violence Non-Violence

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Business Beginning Start Book End

A race cannot be purified from without.

Anna Julia Cooper

Race Without Cannot Purified

Once you start playing 'Call of Duty,' you better watch out, because before you know it, you've lost four or five hours out of your day.

Day Start Better You Lost Know

I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I had some ugly clothes growing up, and I never had any privileges. In some ways, I think the person that I am now, I think it's good that I had that kind of tough upbringing.

Good Shoes Money I Am Ugly Parents

China on the world stage, in terms of interaction with the rest of the world, has been relatively very new due to the long isolation period until Deng Xiaoping's times.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

World Rest Isolation Long New Stage

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

History Beginning Think You Content

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

Creative Self Drink More Real Than

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

Small Play Miracle Playing Film

I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.

Myself Find Admire Try Listen Just

You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

Love Creative People Laugh Long You

I grew up in the Boston suburbs and inherited a stubborn New England refusal to acknowledge frigid temperatures.

Stubborn New Boston Up Suburbs

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