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So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the…
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When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which…
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man…
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Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate…
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to…
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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
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Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate…
— Edith Hamilton
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Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.
— Mao Zedong
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In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning…
— Thomas Jefferson
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How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given…
— John Andreas Widtsoe
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A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government
— John Rawls
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Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday…
— Grant Wood
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Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a…
— Hugo Ball
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