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“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.”

T. S. Eliot · Poetry

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T. S. Eliot

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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