George Eliot Quotes
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
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The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
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I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
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Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
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The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
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Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook.
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Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.
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I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.
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I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.
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Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.
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An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.
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I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'
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Most beliefs about nature and man, which were not founded on scientific observation, have served directly or indirectly religious and social interests, and hence they have been protected by force against the criticisms of persons who have the inconvenient habit of using their reason
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There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
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Of all the wars that have taken place wince then, none has endured so long as the conflict between knowledge and belief. For centuries now, knowledge has attempted, unsuccessfully, to supersede belief. But the entire clash stems from a misapprehension of the nature of belief. We can't not believe; and we won't ever know everything. We know this much: knowledge remains an endless advance toward an end point that endlessly recedes.
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
