George Eliot Quotes

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

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• Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

  

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

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• This town was built on nepotism.

  

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• People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

  

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• Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.

  

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• We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

  

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• Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

  

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• In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

  

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• I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

  

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• I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.

  

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• I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that has come a book deal, and I think it certainly contributes to people's view of me as a person with a sense of humor, which is only helpful in my industry.

  

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• The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

  

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• The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.

  

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• The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

  

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• There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.

  

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• Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.

  

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• Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

  

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• Most Americans believe that with freedom comes responsibility - and that one measure of responsible gun ownership is a background check. There must be an app for that.

  

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• If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.

  

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• Indeed, it is tempting to suppose that it is self evident that things should be so arranged so as to lead to the most good.

  

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• Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in ourselves; we do this either because we are unaware of the evil that exists within us, or because we always see our own evil disguised as a good.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
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• In Tbilisi in 1990, I recall watching zealous Georgians smash statues of Lenin and Stalin. A few days earlier, though, in Moscow I had been invited to address the Red Army, as one of the first Brits to benefit from Glasnost. The subject they chose: The Cuban Missile Crisis.

  

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• It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

  

  George Eliot
  • Good
  • Foolish
  • Reasoning