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Complacency is the enemy of progress.
JIM GENOVESE
One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
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PETER WARD
The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his li...
WIL S. HYLTON
One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.
STUART BOWEN
Conformity is the biggest enemy of progress. Break those limiting social rules.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will...
T.S. ELIOT
When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director ...
KENNETH LANGONE
One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the...
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The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place...
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I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.
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It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.
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Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.
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irrational and legally spurious.
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Representative Baker is an embarrassment. He is wrong on the issue of enforceability, ... His respon...
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education a...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
I made an off-hand remark that I would be chairman only so long until we have a Democrat governor of...
GEORGE PATAKI
The heat signal from this planet is so strong that Spitzer was able to resolve its disk, in the sens...
DRAKE DEMING
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AAREF HILALY
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AAREF HILALY
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and sti...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and sti...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sou...
GEORGE ELIOT
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homo...
TOM ROBBINS
Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order
NORMAN SPINRAD
Bush is the enemy of God, the enemy of Islam, an enemy of Muslims.
ABDEL AZIZ RANTISI
With the primary coming up, it doesn't hurt Spitzer at all to be fighting with Pataki. It might be t...
GERALD BENJAMIN
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
C NORTHCOTE PARKINSON
Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our...
FEISAL ABDUL RAUF
T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has fe...
PENELOPE MITCHELL
People like Eliot because he's a fighter, not a quitter. If Mr. Weld thinks Eliot was too tough on c...
DARREN DOPP
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
ARABIC PROVERB
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
ARABIAN PROVERBS
The enemy of your enemy is your friend.
GEORGE MIKHAIL
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
ARABIAN PROVERB
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
DAN WELLS
Honestly, Mum, how can you say someone's a great writer if you've got a stack of reference books nex...
VAL MCDERMID
Eliot has never shied away from an opportunity to take on his opponents. We have requests from news ...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON
I do not know of anything in modern poetry as violently hostile to contemporary life as was the poet...
DENNIS GABOR
Eliot and I aren't saying innocent or guilty.
BARRY TATELMAN
We can't have you and Mr. Spitzer and the guy in Massachusetts screaming at each other,
CHRIS DODD
It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.
GEORGE ELIOT
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
ORSON WELLES

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or ...
GEORGE ELIOT
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts ...
GEORGE ELIOT
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which w...
GEORGE ELIOT
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for th...
GEORGE ELIOT
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li...
GEORGE ELIOT
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
GEORGE ELIOT
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
GEORGE ELIOT
Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOT
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disco...
GEORGE ELIOT
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow...
GEORGE ELIOT
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOT
How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances?...
GEORGE ELIOT
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOT
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be call...
GEORGE ELIOT
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
GEORGE ELIOT
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOT
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...
GEORGE ELIOT
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying s...
GEORGE ELIOT
Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first...
GEORGE ELIOT
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
GEORGE ELIOT
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
GEORGE ELIOT
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort t...
GEORGE ELIOT
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
GEORGE ELIOT
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves...
GEORGE ELIOT
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOT
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
GEORGE ELIOT
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffe...
GEORGE ELIOT
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
GEORGE ELIOT
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
GEORGE ELIOT
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
GEORGE ELIOT
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what mus...
GEORGE ELIOT
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOT