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All of the security plans assume that the bad guys know far more than you could learn on a public tour.


Eliot Brenner

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GEORGE ELIOT But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of ...
GEORGE ELIOT There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an ...
GEORGE ELIOT Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
GEORGE ELIOT Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
GEORGE ELIOT It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear decei...
GEORGE ELIOT There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but...
GEORGE ELIOT Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
GEORGE ELIOT Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight ...
GEORGE ELIOT You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
GEORGE ELIOT A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understa...
GEORGE ELIOT Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go al...
GEORGE ELIOT One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
GEORGE ELIOT 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.
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