George Eliot Quotes
I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.
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On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
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Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
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Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.
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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
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You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane
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The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
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This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.
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Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.
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Don't ever fret over married children; they will take care of themselves.
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Failure cannot cope with persistence.
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Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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A feathered arrow without a barb,” said he, “is a good weapon, but a barbed arrow without feathers is utterly useless.
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Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it - that's how liars are.
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Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survival after death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.
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People walk around pushing back their debts Wearing pay checks like necklaces and bracelets.
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I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.
