George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.
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If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.
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Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
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Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
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{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
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Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live - men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization - because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.
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Assassination's the fastest way.
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Only Allah changes the regime.
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I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.
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My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort.
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Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
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It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.
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“It's a queer thing, growing up. The years pile up, Hap, but at the same time I'm still ever age I ever was. When we stood before those sea-giants, I felt five years old, awed and scared. When I see a pretty lady, I'm eighteen again! And when my bones remind me, I feel all of my sixty years. All those ages are still inside me, all at once. The years stack up like sediment, and the layers remain.”
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He`s quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life on his co-star Hayden Christensen.
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Things are achieved when they are well begun.
