George Eliot Quotes
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.
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Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
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I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
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The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
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O, this faith is a living, busy, active, powerful thing! It is impossible that it should not be ceaselessly doing that which is good. It does not even ask whether good works should be done; but before the question can be asked, it has done them, and it is constantly engaged in doing them. But he who does not do such works, is a man without faith. He gropes and casts about him to find faith and good works, not knowing what either of them is, and yet prattles and idly multiplies words about faith and good works.
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History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
