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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot

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Stubbornness
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George Eliot
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. – George Eliot

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Men
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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. – George Eliot

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best
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The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from. – John Still, The Jungle Tide

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History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right. – George H. W. Bush

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. – Voltaire

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I dont have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so Im left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct. – Vivienne Westwood

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Our aspirations are our possibilities. – Robert Browning

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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties. – Anne Sullivan Macy

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I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. – Bob Dylan

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If you think you have it tough, read history books. – Bill Maher

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