George Eliot Quotes
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
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Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
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The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.
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All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
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If I am expected to play a dancer, I will learn dancing but won't do the random, meaningless dancing.
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Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.
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The directors are always sharp. It's true.
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It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.
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Virtue is the beauty of the soul.
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Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.
