Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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I'm not a shouter, and I'm not a bully.
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Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
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I never fall in love.
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Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
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There's more money on the left in media than there is on the right.
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I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
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Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.
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Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past.
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But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
