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Lewis H. Lapham has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines…
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a…
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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes…
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The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand…
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have…
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Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments…
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of…
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The supply of government exceeds demand.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the…
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations…
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…
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Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.…
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At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it…
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't…
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Love is its own reward....
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The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
— John Henry Newman
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In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own…
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
— John Vanbrugh
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A generous action is its own reward.
— William Thomas Walsh
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Order is its own reward.
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Liberty is its own reward.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at…
— Kenneth Arrow
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Virtue is its own reward.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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