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Quote by George Eliot
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – 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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Science
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George Eliot
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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. – George Eliot

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God
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. – C. Northcote Parkinson

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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. Thats the nature of America, I think. – Jerry Garcia

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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. – John Paul Jones

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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. Theres something very powerful about finding snow in summer. – Andy Goldsworthy

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I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it. – Ken Follet

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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. – Seneca

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My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers – its what my children call my dead author wall. I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. – Debbie Macomber

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The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons. – David Sedaris

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