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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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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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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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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They tell us it will be about 'emotions' and 'friendship,' that it will be a night of joy. Who are they kidding?
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Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.
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When you're 19, girlfriends are girlfriends. Then you start thinking about the rest of your life and stuff. I don't know; something happens with your glands. Your alimony gland.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
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Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so.
