George Eliot Quotes

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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Some celebrities like to get behind water conservation or helping the homeless get back on their feet. Me? Body grooming control: that's what I like to step behind 100 percent.
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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We have to acknowledge that those past human right abuses existed and so we can't go forward without looking back, and understanding that was enormous problem, not just for America but also problem for the Indonesian people...
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They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
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Fear is the enemy of logic.
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
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This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs.
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This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.
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But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
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Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.
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This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.
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They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up.
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Some smart moves were little more than nicely padded traps.
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I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
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Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of privilege that I had grown up with. That whole belief... that you will only be able to advance if you are perfectly behaved, if you present yourself as what white people would consider an ideal of whiteness... all of that just began to burst open.
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In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.