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Quote by Irving Babbitt
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adj

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. – 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 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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Faith
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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. – Irving Babbitt

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” – S.I. Hayakawa

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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures – youve just got to be sure that its a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed. – Malcolm Mclaren

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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

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Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation. – Adam Schiff

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During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. – Howard Thurman

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Politics isnt just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. – Sarah Palin

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