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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic…
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to…
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or…
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated…
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it…
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person…
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. — Ludwig Borne
Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy. — Juan Bosch
Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away. — Robert Baker Aitken
Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all… — Rajneesh
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that… — Mary Parker Follett
The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects. — Che Guevara
As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into… — Ned Rorem
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real… — Louis Kronenberger
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting… — Brooks Atkinson
Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness:… — Matthieu Ricard
Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,… — Abraham Lincoln

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