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I dont pretend to understand the Universe - its a great deal bigge

I dont pretend to understand the Universe – its a great deal bigger than I am. – Thomas Carlyle

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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. – 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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Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle

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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true. – Niels Bohr

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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. – Frederic Bastiat

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