George Eliot Quotes
Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which on its own can solve our problems.This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.
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Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.
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The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.
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Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.
