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"The worst thing you can do is to hate someone. The best thing you can do is to totally love someone without expectations."

"We love things because they reflect our imaginative love in their expression."

"Brokenness a result of bitterness."
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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."


"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."


"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual."


"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."


"A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses."


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


"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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