T. S. Eliot Quotes
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.
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Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.
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I would love to do some crazy action or even a real romantic comedy. I think that would be really exciting.
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If the truth didn't help anyone, and love didn't last, what was there left to struggle toward?
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People were endlessly trying to set me up with 'eligible' men, and I enjoyed going on a galaxy of dates.
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So the lover must struggle for words.
