Like human resources, the Democrats are a party of norms, procedure, bureaucracy, DEI initiatives, rule following, language policing, and compliance. It is in this way that the Democratic Party feels not so much infuriating and threatening, but just kind of an annoying bummer.
~ Mike Pesca
via The HR-ification of the Democratic Party
published by The Atlantic on November 12, 2024
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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
~ T.S. Eliot
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
~ T.S. Eliot
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It is impossible to say just what I mean.
~ T.S. Eliot
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
~ T.S. Eliot
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There will be time, there will be time. To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
~ T.S. Eliot
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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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I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
~ T.S. Eliot
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