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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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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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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Relax, you're among friends now. The long hard day is over and the roly-poly funny man is before you.
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I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job.
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I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.
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Life is not, and death is a dream. Suffering has invented them both as self-justification. Man alone is torn between an unreality and an illusion.
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I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
