George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
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Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.
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I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.
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I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.
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Chorus: We must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
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Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of weights of the sulfur burned and the oxygen absorbed.
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A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.
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Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.
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I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.
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Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
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I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
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We aren't quite sure what we're trying to differentiate, and therefore can't quite see how to do it other than giving some students more to cover and some less. That rarely works.
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Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.
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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
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I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
