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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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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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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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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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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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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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A million years went by quick.
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If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.
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Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.
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We are bound by nothing except belief.
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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.
