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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. But the harm does not interest them. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#done #due #feel #half #harm

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#hidden #lousy #more #pronouncements #square

It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'. ↗

— Peter Ueberroth

#check #city #federal #federal government #go

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. ↗

— Sam Elliott

#career #entire #entire career #horseback #i

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. ↗

— Epicurus

#difficulty #glory #greater #more #surmounting

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#bourgeoisie #class #exist #fine #flower

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

#every #i #lose #often #once

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

#feel #hardly #however #living #may

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

#i #i can #me #must #obsessional

The camera can photograph thought. ↗