"... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect."

-- George Eliot

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“The single biggest stimulus to the economy are the unemployment benefits we're paying. These people go out and they spend the money. They go out and they have to get by to everything from paying their mortgage or buying food or just getting by. It has a significant impact on economic growth and the continuation of economic growth.”
“If there are no books. There is no civilization.”
“Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.”
“Im share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.”
“The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.”
“Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.”
“You change your mind-set, and as long as you've got a good mind-set, you'll know everything is good.”
“Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!”

Source : Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.225

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