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"We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective."
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"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."
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"Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry."I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves.Not always rational," she said, smiling. "But you're the best kind of crazy."
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"The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them."
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"It isn't the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But humanity doesn't want to die. As a species, we have evolved to survive."
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"Some people are here on earth because they were sent to hell."
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"We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels."
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"We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them."
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"I don't want to be rich and famous but I want to die knowing I stood infront of a broken man and gave him one reason to smile again."
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"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."
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"With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one."
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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 its practice."
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"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
"Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards."
Society
"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
"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
"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."
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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 feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."
Man
"Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself."
Faith
"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
Science
"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration."
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