George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
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We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
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As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
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I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
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Win or lose, do it fairly.
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If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.
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Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.
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I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.
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The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.
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Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so.
