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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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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'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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I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
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'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place.
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There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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Strong, not skinny, is now sexy, and long workouts are a thing of the past.
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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.
