George Eliot Quotes
... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.
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In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.
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Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie.It's the kind of ending you don't really wanna see.'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down.Now I don't know what to be without you around.
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'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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55: LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
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Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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The important thing is to end a conflict that has brought burdens to both our peoples, and above all to the people of South Viet-Nam. If you have any thoughts about the actions I propose , it would be most important that I receive them as soon as possible.
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There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us.
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When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.
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I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.
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Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.
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... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.
