Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, or they do not see it, or they justify it, because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

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"April is the kindest month."

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""April is the kindest month.""

- T.S. Eliot

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"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man."

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"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life."

- T.S. Eliot

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"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."

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"Thinking you’re no-good and worthless is the worst thing you can do."

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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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