George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get to the facts and learn lessons to prevent future misconduct by foreign governments.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.
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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
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I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
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Intercession is about putting ourselves in other’s shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective.
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If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.
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Qian Xuesen, the father of the Chinese Space Program, studied in the United States, and he was a protégé of Theodore Von Carmen's at Cal Tech and helped start the jet propulsion laboratory there, and then he got caught up in the anti-communism wave and was accused of being a spy and was actually deported back to China where he built from nothing, their entire missile and space program. So, in a way, in a very real way, the United States in trying to protect so-called protect our secrets and throwing this guy out of the country, we helped seed and start the Chinese missile program.
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He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.
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Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.
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Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in the morning. They want things like toast. I say, 'I don't have these recipes.
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People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.
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When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
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It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
