#noble

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? ↗

— Milton Friedman

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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain. ↗

— Thomas Malory

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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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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

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