George Eliot Quotes
Conscience is harder than our enemies,
Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.
Barack Obama
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We clarified that without a clear abandonment of the path of terror, a recognition of Israel's right to exist in security and peace ... Israel won't have any contact with the Palestinians.
Ehud Olmert
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A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it.
Elijah Wood
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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.
Victor Hugo
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Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.
G. Stanley Hall
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
Carl Rakosi