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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. ↗

— George Eliot

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It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. ↗

— George Eliot

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I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general. ↗

— Serena Williams

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. ↗

— George Eliot

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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. ↗

— George Eliot

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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. ↗

— George Eliot

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It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

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I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ↗

— George Eliot

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