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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.


Thomas Carlyle

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The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
THOMAS CARLYLE Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
THOMAS CARLYLE For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says ...
G. K. CHESTERTON So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL What we think is unique here is that the technology is used throughout the school district by all le...
BARBARA ALLEN Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were mer...
CECELIA AHERN True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo...
THOMAS CARLYLE Even with all of the players that they have lost, they still have a great team. Kenny Thomas stepped...
PAUL PIERCE INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an oppor...
PETER DRUCKER INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an oppor...
PETER F. DRUCKER Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yours...
EPICTETUS Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely ...
PETER ACKROYD I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.
CHELSEA CLINTON But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only atta...
HERBERT READ There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is ...
LACTANTIUS The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one i...
CHUCK SCHUMER All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that ...
KALLE LASN If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-...
JOHN STUART MILL He's always said that Deep Throat is a personality that was created by Bob Woodward, a name that was...
JOAN FELT For children, Lacy becomes a transition object. If a child has been in some trouble, they may feel t...
LINDA MARTIN The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that: People were taught that they were created by...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they...
MALCOLM S. FORBES A culture of secrecy is like the bad stench created by cat pee—it is very difficult to get rid of.
PIERRE DE VOS Even being interested in the most cultured person, you can see that the cause of his culture is that...
ILKIN SANTAK In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in tha...
THEODOR W. ADORNO The fact that Jack Thomas has been acquitted of not supporting a terrorist organization or being a r...
ROB STARY In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, wi...
CARL ROGERS America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global cu...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD The Arch, formally known as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, dedicated to President Thomas...
MARY HENDRON I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees...
JANE MAYER Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Culture is relevant so long as it exists over a defined period of time, beyond which it becomes hist...
AKRAM ABU HAMDAN 'Great Things About Being...' is a provocative and often dead-on look at stereotypes created by popu...
ANDREW COHEN The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociolo...
GUS VAN SANT At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartil...
IYANLA VANZANT Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.
MARK CRISPIN MILLER I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES We were all created by the seed of God to become great
SUNDAY ADELAJA Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandio...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The smallest world on earth is that which is created by a closed mind.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Atheists can live without God but they cannot live without water, food and air, which were created b...
тαмιℓιαηρσηηυ Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that ...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that wh...
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG All these guys think they can shoot a 72. If they were capable of hitting 90 percent of their shots,...
GLEN EWING Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good...
THOMAS BRAY Contrary to Thomas' carefully cultivated public persona, he is capable of abhorrent behavior in priv...
ANUCHA BROWNE SANDERS We stress that folks should have alternate methods by which they can receive warning information. Th...
DAVE TUCEK Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, ...
MALCOLM FORBES This is a very serious issue which concerns not only the seamen but the farmers whose produce … is...
THEODOROS ROUSSOPOULOS Even if he is more likely to be a Rehnquist than a Thomas, the downside of him being a Thomas outwei...
CHARLES SCHUMER Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of avera...
ARNOLD BENNETT Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of av...
ARNOLD BENNETT They died here, they were burned here, their souls are still here. It's a process of farewell, and o...
ALONA BISTAYEVA A learned person is not learned in everything; but the capable person is capable in everything, even...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the ...
GORDON W. ALLPORT The type of cartooning that I think is generally referred to as 'alternative' or 'underg...
ADRIAN TOMINE A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment....
KATE GRENVILLE (The other riders) were all stressing. As long as they know (I'm capable of knocking them off), that...
BUCKY LASEK 'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on...
MAX WEBER There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by t...
BILL KELLER There was a period around Columbine when horror films were being kind of assailed by the government....
WES CRAVEN I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. A prayerful life, spiritual act of upholding all that you are capable of being.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA BJP is a national party which runs the central government, and if I can take a decision on the futur...
SHARAD PAWAR God did not separate humanity from the environment in which they were created
SUNDAY ADELAJA Arab Muslims need to be part of the creative process, and they just aren't. When (a vilified religio...
JACK SHAHEEN Conflict is good in a negotiation process... it's the clash of two ideas, which then, all being ...
LUKE ROBERTS If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-...
JOHN STUART MILL In bluntest terms, art museums risk being commercial institutions in which art is subsumed by econom...
AMY WHITAKER People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos, i...
JOHN GREEN You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members sho...
PATRICK LENCIONI If time were to be a person,he would be the most patient person ever created.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) At Under Armour, we've created a very strong culture, a culture that first and foremost is built...
KEVIN PLANK There were some that were really cool. Some of them came in with actual drawings, which was great be...
GINA CAHILL The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitatin...
THEODOR ADORNO The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, a...
HENRI POINCARE If there's a message from this, it's all about culture. It took a lot of years and hard work, but we...
MICHAEL WACHOLDER Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimate...
DANIEL WEBSTER Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimate...
DANIEL WEBSTER This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
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THOMAS CARLYLE One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
THOMAS CARLYLE Song is the heroics of speech.
THOMAS CARLYLE Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
THOMAS CARLYLE A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
THOMAS CARLYLE The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
THOMAS CARLYLE The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
THOMAS CARLYLE Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
THOMAS CARLYLE Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the t...
THOMAS CARLYLE Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
THOMAS CARLYLE It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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THOMAS CARLYLE It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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THOMAS CARLYLE The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
THOMAS CARLYLE Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
THOMAS CARLYLE Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
THOMAS CARLYLE Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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THOMAS CARLYLE The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
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THOMAS CARLYLE The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
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THOMAS CARLYLE The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
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THOMAS CARLYLE If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
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THOMAS CARLYLE Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
THOMAS CARLYLE Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
THOMAS CARLYLE I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
THOMAS CARLYLE The actual well seen is ideal.
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THOMAS CARLYLE If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
THOMAS CARLYLE No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLE Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony ...
THOMAS CARLYLE For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE No violent extreme endures.
THOMAS CARLYLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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