George Eliot Quotes
So to live is heaven: To make undying music in the world, Breathing a beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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When Facebook acquired Oculus, the game changed immediately. You saw big companies jumping in. You saw people like Google getting fully committed, and then Microsoft came along with HoloLens - there was a lot of stuff that people were doing before, but now the space really ignited.
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A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
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The truth is, as you know, people like us look at what's happening in the world, and then we project it forward. We think, 'If I know A and B, then I've got to know that C and D are coming,' and that's kind of the way it's been with my fiction.
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.
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So to live is heaven: To make undying music in the world, Breathing a beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man.
