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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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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. – Irving Babbitt

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Science
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Irving Babbitt
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. – Irving Babbitt

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Happiness
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One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Knowledge

Doubt grows with knowledge. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Knowledge

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Knowledge

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge. – Arthur Rimbaud

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Money cant buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. – Spike Milligan

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Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. – Stephen Hawking

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Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. – Chuck Norris

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I dont mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I dont even mind using someones reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles. – Joseph Newcomer

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