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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order…
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates…
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;…
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The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother…
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless…
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows…
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To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed…
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless…
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements…
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For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that…
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The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and…
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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a…
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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
— Leo Strauss
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Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil…
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works…
— Ben Okri
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It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
— Confucius
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Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
— Joe Davis
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