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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Purpose
George Eliot

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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
Men and Women
George Eliot

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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
Eloquence
George Eliot

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All cases are unique and very similar to others.
Originality
T. S. Eliot

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
Arts and Artists
T. S. Eliot

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
Life and Living
T. S. Eliot

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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
Words
T. S. Eliot

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In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
Indecision
T. S. Eliot

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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
Culture
T. S. Eliot

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
Rebellion
T. S. Eliot

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
Pride
T. S. Eliot

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
Past
T. S. Eliot

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
Risk
T. S. Eliot

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Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.
Emotions
T. S. Eliot

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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
Success
T. S. Eliot

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The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
Impulse
T. S. Eliot

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
Life and Living
T. S. Eliot

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The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Deeds and Good Deeds
T. S. Eliot

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Arts and Artists
T. S. Eliot

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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
Youth
T. S. Eliot

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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
Methods
T. S. Eliot

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
War
T. S. Eliot

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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
People, Other
T. S. Eliot

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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
Insanity
T. S. Eliot

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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
Information
T. S. Eliot

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun