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People Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
- Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
- The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this…
- I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls…
- People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
- People find a way in which they can say something.
- It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having…
- What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
- Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.
- You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.
- The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
- Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm.…
- Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
- People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
- We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And…
- Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
- The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and…
- If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word,…
- To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem…
- We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
- Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome
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