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Quote by George Eliot
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been ma

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. – George Eliot

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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot

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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character. – George Eliot

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People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which theyre going to travel. – Theresa May

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I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there. – Howard Baker

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The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it. – John Pomfret

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I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didnt have money to travel. I thought Id have to join the military to get to Europe. So Im thrilled to travel. – Chris Isaak

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War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent. – George Orwell

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Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong. – Ricky Martin

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History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey

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It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. Id rather spend my energy smiling. – Eric Davis

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