#k

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. ↗

— George Eliot

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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. ↗

— George Eliot

#even #experience #human #human experience #incongruous

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. ↗

— George Eliot

#entertain #grounds #liking #make #make up

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake. ↗

— Noah Kerner

#design #marketing #product #design

As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you. ↗

— John Fahey

#else #errors #everybody #everybody else #everyday

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#earn #keep #more #out #spending

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#strengthen #strong #weak #weakening #you

I suspect that I’m not alone when it comes to altering my surroundings depending on how I feel at any particular moment: diving into a specific book, immersing inside a particular movie, devouring certain foods or humming to just the right song. ↗

— Barbara Brooke

#mood #movies #songs #food

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. ↗

— George Eliot

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ↗

— George Eliot

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