George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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I don't talk soft, that's that other guy.
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I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.
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Just because people count you out and don't give you any love ... how about making them all fools?
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This individual (McVeigh) will not be on this planet mocking us.
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For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.
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I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise.
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My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye
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I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any guitar stuff when you get right down to it - Jimi did it. He's certainly the guy who basically invented the blues-rock genre for guitar players.
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Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?
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Successful leaders view the journey more like the captain of a sailboat, relying on their skill and know-how, but knowing all along that the wind (help from other sources) is the force that will get them to their destination.
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The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them.
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I'm a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games.
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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.
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He was my mentor at UCLA, but he's a traitor now.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.
