George Eliot Quotes
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
Quotes to Explore
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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 have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.
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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 have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.
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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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Five of the above rules are of absolute necessity, and cannot be dispensed with without essential defect and often without error.
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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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I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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The gap between a dumb and a clever person may appear large from an anthropocentric perspective, yet in a less parochial view the two have nearly indistinguishable minds.
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
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I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
