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George Eliot Quote: 'Ignorant kindness may have the effect ...'

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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.


Walter Savage Landor
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
Robert Smithson
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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
Patrick White
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.


Tamsin Greig
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You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.
William Cavendish
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Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?
Sean Hannity
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The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.


Mary J. Blige
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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
Bono
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Farewell, fair cruelty.


William Shakespeare
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.
Linda Chavez
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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.


Euripides
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I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.
Brian Greene
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
Mackenzie Astin
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OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.
Jennifer Aniston
Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.
Roy Harper
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Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.
Jerry Seinfeld
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are read in a matter of days, even hours. A writer may labor for weeks over a particular passage that will have its effect on a reader for an instant - and that effect may be subliminal or barely noticed.
Graham Swift
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.


Amos Bronson Alcott