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You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it. ↗

— William Gilbert

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I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right? ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#after #another #anything #book #came

I flew back and forth and did episodes of Roseanne while I was at Yale. ↗

— Sara Gilbert

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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#doing #establishment #into #modes #move

Intelligent design itself does not have any content. ↗

— George Gilder

#content #design #does #intelligent #itself

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue. ↗

— David Gill

#contract #designed #issue #retirement #rolling

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. ↗

— William Godwin

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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. ↗

— William Godwin

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