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Irving Babbitt

"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."

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Donna Grant

"The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words."

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Donna Grant

"Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why."

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Donna Grant

"Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive."

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Donna Grant

"The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don't straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?"

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Donna Grant

"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."

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Donna Grant

"There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward."

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Donna Grant

"The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God."

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Donna Grant

"Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted."

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Donna Grant

"If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush."

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Donna Grant

"People should not expect to eat if they did not work."

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Irving Babbitt
"A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice."

Emotional

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Irving Babbitt
"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn."

Chance

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Irving Babbitt
"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."

Man

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Irving Babbitt
"Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards."

Society

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Irving Babbitt
"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."

Power

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Irving Babbitt
"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."

Democracy

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Irving Babbitt
"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."

Revolution

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Irving Babbitt
"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."

Virtue

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Irving Babbitt
"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."

Discipline

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Irving Babbitt
"Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon."

Being

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