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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. – Thomas Carlyle

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. – Thomas Carlyle

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Duty
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Thomas Carlyle
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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

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Cooking, Culinary
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Thomas Carlyle
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. – Thomas Carlyle

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Custodian Thanks
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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. – Thomas Huxley

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Im sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasnt on our radar screen. We were just making great software. – Bill Gates

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great

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life – that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment – that would be the perfect state. – Cate Blanchett

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Ive made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. – Henry Rollins

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Whatever is popular deserves attention. – James Mackintosh

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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them. – Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

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Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time. – Marianne Williamson

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I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Lifes too short for that. I dont really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics. – Dean Koontz

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