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Quote by George Eliot
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which non

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. – George Eliot

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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. – George Eliot

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Obscurity
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How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice… – George Eliot

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Rivers
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. – George Eliot

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Jealousy
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. – G. K. Chesterton

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Neutrality

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. – Arthur J. Goldberg

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Neutrality

Balance is the enemy of art. – Richard Eyre

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Neutrality

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. – Ambrose Bierce

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Neutrality

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Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. – Arthur Levitt

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The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need. – Mike Fitzpatrick

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One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance. – Elbert Hubbard

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Our strength is often composed of the weakness that were damned if were going to show. – Mignon McLaughlin

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