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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Decision Time Vision Yourself
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Beyond Escape Experience
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
Teach us to care and not to care
T. S. ELIOT

Care One Liner Teaching

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