George Eliot Quotes

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

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I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
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Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.
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Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
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A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
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Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.
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People are sheepish when they approach me.
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Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road.
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You're jumping over the bench, jumping back onto the ice and you're working as a unit. Defenders can move up the ice and score goals as well as the forwards. It's a real fast, physical game. It's the fastest game on earth so it's pretty enjoyable to watch.
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I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
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If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.
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It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.