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 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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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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I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
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I was possessed by London.
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I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.
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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
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'The Marrying Season' is the final book in the 'Legend of St. Dwynwen' series, and in each of the three books, a small village church in the Cotswolds plays a significant role.
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For me, 'Resurrected' is just like I'm saying, 'I'm still here; I'm still having fun, and I'm still going.'
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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.
