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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to… — Charles Horton Cooley
Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty.… — Gregory Bateson
No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined… — Charles Horton Cooley
Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie. — Walter Reuther
Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life.… — Eleanor Holmes Norton
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds… — Eli Broad
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit… — Sonia Sotomayor
A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a… — Felix Frankfurter
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the… — Neville Chamberlain
Instead of building newer and larger weapons of mass destruction, I think mankind should try to get more use out of the ones we have. — Jack Handey
As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents… — Margaret Sanger
Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered. It is your destiny to play an infinity of roles,… — Deepak Chopra
If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing… — William Greider
The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut also by another… — Marianne Williamson
I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break… — Joseph Hall
He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to… — Henry George
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make… — George Orwell
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many… — Ralph Washington Sockman

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