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

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Readership was high, and very attentive. It was peoples only source of knowledge about the world. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Knowledge

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal society can not exist unless it goes on. – Albert J. Nock

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Knowledge

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible. – Charlie Sheen

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Knowledge

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is. – Polykarp Kusch

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Knowledge

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When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. – Michael Leboeuf

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Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse

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