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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything

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

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. – Thomas Carlyle

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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. – Thomas Carlyle

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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. – Sun Tzu

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I never wanted to become an actress because Id read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did. – Julie Walters

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I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. Theyre always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means youre doing something right. – Ziggy Marley

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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but its only money… they dont know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. – Alan Watts

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Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity. – Leighton Meester

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There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, “He who hates vice hates mankind.” – W. MacNeile Dixon

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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didnt have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didnt have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. – Theodore Sturgeon

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