George Eliot Quotes
in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
George Eliot
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
Yitzhak Shamir
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All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work-and therefore as dads.
Warren Farrell
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
Isaac Asimov
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I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.
Bob Dylan
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As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
Carol Ann Duffy
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'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.
Bonnie McKee
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How the alternative reduces one's prospect and petrifies the imagination in a way that the possibility can never do. Possibilities, innumerable and tightly packed, could shower forth like mushroom spore between such alternatives as being here, or there; alive, or dead; and old, or young.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.
Major Taylor
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The people who live here in and around Davos are proud. The hard work, which is done with great love, the way they treat animals (you very seldom see an animal being mishandled) entitle them to be proud. In most cases, work here has reached the ideal standard of being done with love. You can see it in the movements of their hands. And that, in turn, ennobles the facial expression and imbues all personal contacts with a great delicacy.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
Edmund White
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in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
George Eliot