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George Eliot Quotes

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

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Knowledge Ignorance Down Up Slowly

Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.

Education Love Community Time Enjoy

You want to find a place where, because of your skills, you can make an impact.

Impact You Find Place Skills Want

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

Writing Now Kind Director Directing

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

Jeannette Rankin

War Compromise Common Sense Decency

Be prepared and be honest.

Be Prepared Honest Prepared

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life Beautiful Beautiful Things Will

Usually, you come into it, and there's half a dozen different views or angles on what different people are wanting to see, from the producer to the director to the writers to the actors. I think 'Pacific Rim' has been an example of something that illustrates what you get if everyone is driving towards a common purpose.

Purpose People Think Driving You

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

Time Unity Long Long Time Two Sign

TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel.

Family Women Best Mom Feel Know

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

Problems Numbers Symbols Algebra

Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.

Girl Day Teen Parents People Me

Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.

Michelle Bachelet

Life Family Nature Memory Present

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