George Eliot Quotes
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
Larry Brown
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
Danica McKellar
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
Laura Ramsey
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylor
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
Ian Hacking
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. Du Bois
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By flattening time and space, social computing and business is unlocking credible potential within business. For example, individuals and organizations that weren't connected before are now connected together.
Parker Harris
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
Larisa Oleynik
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
D'Angelo
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We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
T. J. Miller
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It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.
Elizabeth Berg
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To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.
Charlton Heston
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And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.
James Iha
The Smashing Pumpkins
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The move into K-1 was very big at the time. It was very special to me. I liked it. It was different. It was only striking, no ground, so it kinda changed my fight style a little bit.
Alistair Overeem
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What are hopes, what are plans?
Friedrich Schiller
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot
