"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."

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"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."

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"It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined."

Lee R. Raymond, American Businessman

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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made."

Frank Knight, American Economist

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"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict."

Witold Pilecki, Polish Soldier

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"Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand."

John Polkinghorne, British Physicist

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"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."

John Griffin Carlisle, American Politician

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"You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works."

Dave Winer, American Scientist

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"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."

Helen Keller, American Author

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"Italians have no sense of the dramatic."

Jose Carreras, Spanish Musician

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"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."

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"Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes."

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"The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself."

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"The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with."

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"I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities."

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"Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term."

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"We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes."

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