George Eliot Quotes

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
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You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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I guess music is very global.
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How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?
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One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.
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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
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I remember, when I started acting officially, I was unbelievably green. My first audition tapes were just horrendous.
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
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In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.
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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
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Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
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The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.