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“Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.”

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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle, born on December 4, 1795, and died on February 5, 1881, was a prominent Scottish philosopher, historian, and writer. His works are known for their profound social criticism and unique literary style, which had a significant impact on 19th-century British literature and thought. more

“Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of science has all the science before him to go upon, to set himself up in business with. What an enormous sum Darwin availed himself of and reinvested! Not so in literature; to every poet, to every artist, it is still the first day of creation, so far as the essentials of his task are concerned. Literature is not so much a fund to be reinvested as it is a crop to be ever new-grown.”

Men Firsts Art Stills Science Artist Literature Creation Poet Essentials Concerned Tasks Every Man Enormous Fund Crops

Book:The writings of John Burroughs

Source: The writings of John Burroughs

“You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.”

Ifs Want Feels Trying Soul Lost Audience Forever Figures Ghost Ships Feel Good Lost Souls

Author:Dan Rather

“Anyone who says network news cannot be profitable doesn't know what he is talking about. But anyone who says it must "always," make money is misguided and irresponsible.”

Knows Talking News Making Money Profitable Irresponsible Misguided

Author:Dan Rather

“When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.”

Men Kind Persons Passion Individual History Groups Criticism Critical Faculty Killers Identifying Resonance Dialect

Author:Arthur Koestler

“What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler”

Guy Fall Father Family Figures Crosses Editors Arthur Father Figure

Author:Arthur Koestler

“The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.”

Want Humans Wanted Generations Communist Robots

Book:The trail of the dinosaur: and Reflections on hanging

Source: The trail of the dinosaur: and Reflections on hanging

“In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.”

Sometimes Language Felt Adversity Fancy Flags Prosperous Power Of Language

Book:Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering

Source: Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering

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