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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Sam Francis
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• As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

  

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

  

  Karl Shapiro
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  • Head
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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.

  

  Orson Welles
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  • Enemy
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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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  • People
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• Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.

  

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• There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.

  

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• Renaissance Italy became a kind of Hollywood collection of sets of antiquity, and the new visual antiquarianism of the Renaissance provided an avenue to power for men of any class. (p. 136)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Men
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• You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.

  

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• People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • College
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• It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

  

  George Eliot
  • Good
  • Foolish
  • Reasoning