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History: A distillation of rumor.

Thomas Carlyle

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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Animal Bird Demand Learning Politics Supply Word Yourself
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Himself Learning Man Work World
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Democracy Government Hero Satisfaction Yourself
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Gold Silence Talk Worth
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Act Fear Himself Man
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Impossible Noble One Liner Work
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Big Ideas Mindset Original Place State
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Appearance Love Soul Unity
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Food Fun God Himself People
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul

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