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“Leaders: Captains of industry.”

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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

“Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.”

Looks Wealth Gold Sleeves Gowns

Book:Waverley Novels ...: Red-gauntlet

Source: Waverley Novels ...: Red-gauntlet

“He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.”

Thinking Littles Ideas Language Silence Direct Proportion Explicit

Author:Washington Irving

“The dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful form of worship in the morning gives, as it were, the keynote to every temper for the day, and attunes every spirit to harmony.”

Giving Beautiful Form Spirit Order Morning Exercise Worship Harmony Temper Sensible Household Serenity Observers Occasional

Book:The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

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