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.
Quotes to Explore
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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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.
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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.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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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.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
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The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo).
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I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.
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When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring synapses. As we learn more about our cells, we forget more about our souls.
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
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It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
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What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
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Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
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A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.
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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.
