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In books lies the soul of the whole past time. - Thomas Carlyle

In books lies the soul of the whole past time. – Thomas Carlyle

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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, its fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; its a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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Competition
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government. – Thomas Carlyle

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Government
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. – Saint Augustine

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Weve protected thousands of people in Libya we have not seen a single U.S. casualty theres no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope. – Barack Obama

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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these theres time, the Bastard Time. – John Steinbeck

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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. – Thomas A. Edison

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Time

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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. – D.H. Lawrence, “Peace and War,” Pansies, 1929

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Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. – Julie Burchill

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