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Quote by George Eliot
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. – George Eliot

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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment. – George Eliot

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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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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. – e. e. cummings

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Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go. – Henry Austin Dobson

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And I think its that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that. – Clint Eastwood

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Saying goodbye doesnt mean anything. Its the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it. – Trey Parker

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The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond. – Edward McDonagh

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All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. – Richard Le Gallienne

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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. – George Santayana, "War Shrines," Soliloquies in England and Later Solilo

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The experience of being in space didnt change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience. – Sally Ride

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