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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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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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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To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.
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The attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life. Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our country.
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And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I said above, if a prince wishes to maintain the state, he is often obliged not to be good; because whenever that group which you believe you need to support you is corrupted, whether it be the common people, the soldiers, or the nobles, it is to your advantage to follow their inclinations in order to satisfy them; and then good actions are your enemy.
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It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
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A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom.
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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.
