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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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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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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in…
— Edmund Burke
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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of…
— Lucretia Mott
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When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress…
— Sun Tzu
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Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it,…
— Jane Austen
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There are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet.
— Neil Gaiman
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Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting -…
— John Derbyshire
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
— Edward Abbey
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
— B.F. Skinner
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The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you.…
— C.S. Lewis
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It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom…
— Henry Charles Carey
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