George Eliot Quotes
… that modern sect of Flagellants who make a ritual of lashing - not themselves but - all their neighbours.
Quotes to Explore
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I'm aware of the urgency to give Italy a government in the fullness of its powers, to reassure the citizens, and to face with utmost commitment and determination international, economic and social priorities.
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I love my sleep.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.
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We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span.
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
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I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.
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I want to add something worthwhile rather than just chucking loads of stuff into the world. I don't want to feel responsible for adding to the soup of mediocrity.
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I would say divorce, breaking up, being a child of divorce, any of those things are always very challenging.
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Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
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All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.
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'We have a war to fight. You don’t understand. We fight in God’s name.''I understand just fine,' Nyx said.
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If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there may be good reason for you to be fearful too.
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A lot of the state-sponsored growth in India was just too fast. You went from cradle to Nirvana in a short period of time.
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If you're making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person.
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Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
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… that modern sect of Flagellants who make a ritual of lashing - not themselves but - all their neighbours.
