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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowled

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. – Irving Babbitt

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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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Failure
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. – Irving Babbitt

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Society
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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. – Irving Babbitt

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Peace
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Other Quotes from
Knowledge
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In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. – Anthony J. DAngelo

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Knowledge

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We cant talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. – Philip K. Dick

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Knowledge

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Knowledge

Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot. – Sicilian Proverb

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Knowledge

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Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. – Randolph Churchill

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I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything. – Julia Child

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Fear

I wish Id gotten sober at a younger age. – Janice Dickinson

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Age

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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