"True as this is, it is also true……" — Ralph Adams Cram
"True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is."
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Ralph Adams Cram
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11 Quotes by Ralph Adams Cram
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less…
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain…
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble…
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In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in…
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men…
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing…
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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the…
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I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom…
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I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.
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In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a…
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise…
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The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling…
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