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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause…
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him…
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility…
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect…
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in…
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about…
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

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The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better… — Thomas a Kempis
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. — John Rawls
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent… — Alec Waugh
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of… — Irving Babbitt
Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is:… — Confucius
Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit. — Brigham Young
In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated… — Lyndon B. Johnson

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