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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
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The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic…
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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to…
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Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or…
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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated…
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it…
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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…
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The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person…
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
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A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
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Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark…
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But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
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For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and…
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I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.
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Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.
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American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and…
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