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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. - Thomas Carlyle

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. – Thomas Carlyle

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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. – Thomas Carlyle

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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money. – Thomas Carlyle

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

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The only victories that have ever stuck were spiritual. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, “Is it half full or half empty?” So I drank the water. No more problem. – Alexander Jodorowsky

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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. – Bertrand Russell

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[T]hings are entirely what they appear to be and behind them… there is nothing. – Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea

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