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The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do…
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Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical…
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Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.
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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the…
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In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey…
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The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
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The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life…
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In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the…
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The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
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The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
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One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the…
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of…
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be…
— Warren G. Bennis
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
— Anita Brookner
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary…
— Mark Twain
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Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a…
— Warren G. Bennis
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The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in…
— Susan Sontag
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Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.
— Vince Lombardi
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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in…
— Samuel Johnson
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Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often.…
— Queen Victoria
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A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of…
— Herbert Marcuse
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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
— Livy
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Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary…
— Richard Allington
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