George Eliot Quotes
... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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The one thing you can control is effort.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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A racing driver has to be a good driver.
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I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.
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... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.
