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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
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Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.
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The first time I got on stage I was 10 years old and I did impressions. I did cartoon characters and I really got the bug for this life when I saw that people were laughing and saw the attention I was getting.
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One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.
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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.
