George Henry Lewes Quotes
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
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So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.
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Life would be dull without them.
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You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.
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The oil industry is hardly free to operate as efficiently as it could or to be as responsive to consumer demands as it would like. It has become, in essence, a quasi-state-run enterprise, because it cannot drill, transport, refine, and store fuel without receiving government permission, complying with government regulations, and paying taxes at every level or production.
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To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.
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Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.
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There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's slave population is greater than the population of Canada, and six times greater than the population of Israel.
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I have never altered my feelings towards individuals, as men or as women, whether they believe as I do or not. Can you live as neighbors with me? I can with you; and it is no particular concern of mine whether you believe with me or not.
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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
