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It's getting closer, it's normalizing, but nothing extraordinary, ... I don't think that ideology is the motivating force, but it's the glue that binds them.


Carlyle Thayer

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THOMAS CARLYLE If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
THOMAS CARLYLE Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
THOMAS CARLYLE Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of n...
THOMAS CARLYLE Wonder is the basis of worship.
THOMAS CARLYLE The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is more eloquent than words.
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
THOMAS CARLYLE Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as E...
THOMAS CARLYLE When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silenc...
THOMAS CARLYLE Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
THOMAS CARLYLE