"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
-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.“
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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."
-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."
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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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"Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her."
-James Hal Cone
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."
-Saint Bernard
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"I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs."
-Wayne Newton
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"Faith is a higher faculty than reason."
-H. C. Bailey
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"I've always had great faith in people."
-Wayne Newton
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"I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey."
-Joanna Trollope
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