Irving Babbitt Quotes
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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I don't like allegories.
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.
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Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.
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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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I like to look good on the golf course.
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
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If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.