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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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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."
Achievement
"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
Sympathy
"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
"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
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"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."
Virtue
"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."
Sympathy
"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen."
Reading
"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."
Society
"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."
Faith
"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."
Humanity
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