The existing order is complete before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered; and so the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjusted; and this is conformity between the old and the new.
~ T.S. Eliot
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.
~ Toni Morrison
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Keep moving. Let nothing slow you up. Move on with dignity and honor and respectability.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The endless cycle of idea and action, endless invention, endless experiment, brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the word.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
~ Toni Morrison
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The success of communism in the world today is due to the failure of democracy to live up to the noble ideals and principles inherent in its system.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What life have you, if you have not life together? There is not life that is not in community,
~ T.S. Eliot
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Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
~ Toni Morrison
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There needs to be something in your life of a goddess of Nemesis which pulls you down when you get too high and pulls you up when you feel the sense of inadequacy and that is what religion at its best does. It keeps you to the point that you don’t feel like you are too low and you don’t feel like you are too high but you’ll maintain that type of balance.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
~ T.S. Eliot
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