- Confusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
- Humanitarian
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- Nov 07, 2020
The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020