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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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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I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.
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I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.
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Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
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Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
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L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.
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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.
