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Irving Babbitt

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

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

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"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."

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"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."

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"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."

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"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."

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"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun."

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"When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again."

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"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

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"Chance is a name for our ignorance."

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"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"

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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 the plain people."
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"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."
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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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"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."
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"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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"Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself."
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"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."
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"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
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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 of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."
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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 and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."
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