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Quote by George Eliot
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. - Ge

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. – George Eliot

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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. – George Eliot

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Experience
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George Eliot
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. – George Eliot

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Self-Discovery
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare ones self to do without it. – George Eliot

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Happiness
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Dont get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. – Henry Rollins

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If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you dont have love in your life, no matter what else there is, its not enough. – Ann Landers

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I never called my work an art. Its part of show business, the business of building entertainment. – Walt Disney

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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills. – Immanuel Kant

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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. – Pierre Trudeau

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The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. Thats why Im always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers. – Kevin Smith

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Society