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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
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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
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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
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Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie.
— Walter Reuther
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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