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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the w

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. – Thomas Carlyle

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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. – Thomas Carlyle

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Every noble work is at first impossible. – Thomas Carlyle

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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – Thomas Carlyle

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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. – Karl Jaspers

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I never expect to lose. Even when Im the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. – Charles R. Swindoll

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I saw Taxi Driver, and Taxi Driver kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, You talkin to me? You talkin to me? Who the hell else are you talkin to? Thats the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting. – Michael Biehn

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So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies. – Tippi Hedren

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Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses. – Thomas Frank

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