This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
~ T.S. Eliot
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This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Too many Republicans treat English as a second language, with Beltway lingo being their native tongue.
~ Thomas Sowell
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk
– we can talk about it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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An element of goodness may be found even in our worst enemy. Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. A persistent civil war rages within all or our lives.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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At the heart of the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century there was an almost miraculous improvement in the tools of production, which was accompanied by a catastrophic dislocation of the lives of the common people
― Karl Polanyi
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.
~ T.S. Eliot
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So many people are little countries, bounded all around by themselves and they never quite get out of themselves. And these are the persons who are victimized with arrested development.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Part of the pleasure of Instagram is the way it edits out the ugly emotions that make up so much of the rest of social media.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
~ Iris Murdoch
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The things everyone knows are most likely to be wrong.
~ John Steinbeck