George Eliot Quotes
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
Pankaj Mishra
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
Barack Obama
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
Laetitia Casta
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
Ad Reinhardt
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
Becky G
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
Gail Sheehy
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
Octavia Spencer
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
Kate Millett
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
Rachel Platten
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We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.
Marion Jones
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So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.
Edmund Morgan
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He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything – his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.
Jack Youngblood
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We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.
Beeban Kidron
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Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.
David Gerrold
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
