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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Every time I went to a family gathering, I was the boy who made it. I was a Professor at Harvard and everybody stood around in awe and listened to my every word, and all I felt was that horror that I knew inside that I didn't know. Of course, it was all such beautiful, gentle horror, because there was so much reward involved.
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If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.
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There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.
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Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
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In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.
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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.
