"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
-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.“
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"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."
-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."
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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."
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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."
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"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration."
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"Failure is not fatal victory is not success."
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"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."
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"It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure."
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"Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life."
-Michael Savage
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