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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause…
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him…
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility…
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect…
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in…
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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about…
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
— Pietro Aretino
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
— Aristotle
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility…
— Irving Babbitt
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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they…
— James Buchan
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
— Chanakya
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Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.
— Tom Kite
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
— Robert Burns
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Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
— Unknown Author
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As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control…
— Rafael Nadal
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I hate exercising self-control.
— Kate Upton
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God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after…
— Richard Holloway
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