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Quote by Irving Babbitt
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that

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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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. – Irving Babbitt

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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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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. – Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. – Carroll Quigley

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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. – John Millington Synge

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. – Michael Garrett Marino

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