T. S. Eliot Quotes
When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
Quotes to Explore
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
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I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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I would like to do something to help people and help the world.
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The world wants to like America.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.
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The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.
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You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
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Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
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I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
