George Eliot Quotes
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Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
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I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.
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Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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I am an inventor of music.
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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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We have nothing to crow about, our home record has been atrocious, we've got a long ways to go before we feel we're on top.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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I don't get time to hang out with my friends because every time I make a plan, my agent tells me I can't go. I'm used to it.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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We use the coastline as much as the sea otters. And we take fish from the water, we swim in the water, surf in the water. And what's happening to the sea otter could very well be happening to a much larger picture than just the animals themselves.
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There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
