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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause…
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him…
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility…
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect…
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in…
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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about…
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause…
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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got…
— Laurence Sterne
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A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.
— Richard Wurmbrand
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I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement.…
— Leslie Weatherhead
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As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one…
— Baruch Spinoza
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his…
— Agnes Repplier
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Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason…
— James Anthony Froude
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
— Arthur Helps
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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
— George Bernard Shaw
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He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him," said Dumbledore. And notice this, Harry. He chose,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And…
— Rod Serling
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Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law - Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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