T. S. Eliot Quotes
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
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That makes me smart.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.
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Do not grieve for her! Who knows, but she may have found the joy she sought? Love and patience are all that make for happiness in this world; or in the world of the past or of the future; of the living or the dead. She dreamed her dream; and that is all that any of us can ask.
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
