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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. ↗

— William James

#altering #his #life #man #thinking

I am against the whole cliche of the moment. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#am #cliche #i #i am #moment

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The eye sees what it brings the power to see. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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