George Eliot Quotes
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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I trust no one totally.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.
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So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.
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The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
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The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.
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'‘Not everything that walks is a man,’' said the boulder conversationally, '‘and not everything that lies quiet is a stone,’ as the wolf remarked when the serpent bit him.'
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The disconnected impressions which we derive from life form a kind of knowledge ‘in growth,’ as Bacon called it; an over-early and peremptory attempt to digest this knowledge into a system tends, as he suggests, to falsify and distort it.
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If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
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What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
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Poirot twinkled at her gently.
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Logic is concerned with arguments, good and bad. With the docile and the reasonable, arguments are sometimes useful in settling disputes. With the reasonable, this utility attaches only to good arguments. It is the logician’s business to serve the reasonable. Therefore, in the realm of arguments, it is the logician who distinguishes good from bad.
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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
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Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
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When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.
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Leninism is a combination of two things which Europeans have kept for some centuries in different compartments of the soul - religion and business. We are shocked because the religion is new, and contemptuous because the business, being subordinated to the religion instead of the other way round, is highly inefficient.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
