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Quote by Irving Babbitt
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole questi

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. – Irving Babbitt

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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. – Irving Babbitt

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Knowledge
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The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality…. Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality. – Irving Babbitt

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Environment
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. – Elizabeth I

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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. – Felix Adler

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I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis. – Mary Ann Mobley

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For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. – T. S. Eliot

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Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, theres been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. – Andrew Motion

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I cant write without a reader. Its precisely like a kiss – you cant do it alone. – John Cheever

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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary. – Uta Hagen

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Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself. – David Sedaris

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