George Eliot Quotes
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Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
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Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.
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Don't lay a finger on me eyebrows or I'll sue you f...
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One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.
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When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.
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There is a finger pointing tonight at IRA-Sinn Fein.
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On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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There's not one thing that you can put your finger on.
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I reckon he’s jealous, because he can see you have more talent than he’s got in his little finger.
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Always keep a sharp lookout. "Keep your finger out"!
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This was puzzling, as the standard textbook of psychiatry at the time stated that incest was extremely rare in the United States, occurring about once in every million women.8 Given that there were then only about one hundred million women living in the United States, I wondered how forty seven, almost half of them, had found their way to my office in the basement of the hospital. Furthermore, the textbook said, “There is little agreement about the role of father-daughter incest as a source of serious subsequent psychopathology.” My patients with incest histories were hardly free of “subsequent psychopathology”—they were profoundly depressed, confused, and often engaged in bizarrely self-harmful behaviors, such as cutting themselves with razor blades. The textbook went on to practically endorse incest, explaining that “such incestuous activity diminishes the subject’s chance of psychosis and allows for a better adjustment to the external world.
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Answer hopelessness with a defiant smile and a raised middle finger.
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Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.
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To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
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That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
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At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.
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In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...
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New York is a great place to feel inspired all the time.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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There is not one person who can fulfill all your needs. You may choose a partner who is your intellectual equal, and he may not be your most compatible sexual partner. And then there's the duality between security and adventure. A relationship that gives you plenty of novelty, and adventure, may not provide the stability you long for. Time, continuity and familiarity with somebody gives you other things in life but won't necessarily give you the kind of intense lustful experiences that you may have when you first meet someone and are curious about penetrating the mystery of them.
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?
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This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
