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

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You dont know how much you know until you know how much you dont know. – Anon.

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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. – Mary Astell

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I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victorias early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young. – Emily Blunt

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I agree completely with my son James when he says Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge. – Kerry Packer

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Knowledge

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We are all the Presidents men. – Henry Kissinger

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Loyalty

My son, we ought to lay up a stock of absurd enthusiasms in our youth, or else we shall reach the end of our journey with an empty heart, for we lose a great many on our way. – Victor Cherbuliez, Samuel Brohl and Partner, 1877, translated from French (trans

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The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, Im going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America. – John McCain

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A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. – Carol Shields

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