George Eliot Quotes
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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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.
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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.'
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Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government.
Preneet Kaur
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The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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I realized I was a girl playing with all of these great musicians, but race and gender never did cross my mind, really, until other people started talking about them. They weren't really an issue for me.
Cynthia Robinson
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When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair.
Ben Affleck
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The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.
C. S. Lewis
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
