George Eliot Quotes
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
Samora Machel
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
Zhang Zhidong
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
Ofra Strauss
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
A. J. P. Taylor
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When it comes up with my age, I'm like, let's just end the conversation there. That's irrelevant to me. I'll pitch until I'm 40.
Jake Arrieta
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The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all best things are thus confused to ill. Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live among their suffering fellow-men As if none felt: they know not what they do.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
Neville Marriner
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I've actually always wanted to be able to read people's minds. My sister did a movie with super-powers and that's the one I would have wanted, so I really lucked out. The negative is that people are really cruel in their own minds, but you can weed out the bad people from the good people, and then just hang out with the good people.
Kay Panabaker
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In 1998, Nasdaq started a project called Next Nasdaq - or what Nasdaq was going to become - and they decided to handpick some of the up-and-comers. I was chosen as one of the people. It was a great opportunity for me and, I guess, a reflection of the fact that I was seen as someone who was developing her career pretty well.
Adena Friedman
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I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
George Eliot
