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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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Life has always been a small matter with me when duty points the way
— Patrick Cleburne
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
— Stendhal
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Perfectly clear, it’s part of our plans, we’re eliminating the Jews, exterminating them. Ha! A small matter.
— Heinrich Himmler
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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…
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The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.
— Georges Duhamel
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small…
— Colm Toibin
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Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced,…
— Bertrand Russell
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To be simple is no small matter.
— Gustave Flaubert
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When we are going through the aftereffects of a bad jolt in loss of money or prideand both are closely connectedwe should…
— Sue Sanders
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