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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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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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I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.
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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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Let such, such only tread this sacred floor, Who dare to love their country and be poor.
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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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With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.
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Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.
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I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.
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What's happening now with technology is we live with very porous boundaries. All those little interruptions fragment our time and attention and make us feel like work never ends. It makes us feel like we don't ever have that sacred time for family or to breathe or meditate or for leisure. Time is contaminated for everyone. I'm hoping that as we get used to these technologies we'll get smarter about how we use them and also how to shut them off.
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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.
