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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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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
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When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and…
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You see it in schools all over... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those…
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A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
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Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if…
— Hans Blix
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Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help…
— David Riesman
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We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us…
— Thomas Huxley
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How's our young guest?" he asked. As docile as any child could be, wearing a drug-delivery system as she is," said one…
— Frank Beddor
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