T. S. Eliot

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"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."	Desires, Wants
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."	Fear
"So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist."	Evil, Good, Men
"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."	Knowledge, Religion, Wisdom
"Only those who will risk going too far Can possibly find out how far one can go."	Miscellaneous
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."	Poetry
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"	Knowledge, Wisdom
"And the wind shall say: Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls."	Men
"The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates."	Art, Men
"Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion."	Anger, Habits, Intelligence
"We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity."	Ability, Conformity, Honesty

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