George Eliot Quotes
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. How can we ever be satisfied without them until our feelings are deadened?
Quotes to Explore
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.
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I grew up in southern Sudan, one of nine children. Our life was simple but very happy.
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I tried to do Kwanzaa with my family and was like, 'This sucks. What am I doing this for?' For me, I felt like I was doing it because I was trying to live up to someone else's idea of what 'black' was.
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This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
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Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. How can we ever be satisfied without them until our feelings are deadened?
