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Quote by T.S. Eliot
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. – T.S. Eliot

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In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. – T.S. Eliot

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Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. – Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1675 (“Bernard of Chartres used

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Oh, one world at a time! – Henry David Thoreau, when asked about afterlife

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I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. – Bernard M. Baruch

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