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In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. ↗

— James Madison

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A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. ↗

— David Mallet

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All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today. ↗

— Mark Crispin Miller

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If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble. ↗

— Michael Moore

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The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary. ↗

— Francis W. Newman

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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

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A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race. ↗

— James Payn

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