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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. ↗

— Tecumseh

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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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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. ↗

— George Orwell

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Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds. ↗

— Jean Paul

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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. ↗

— Albert Pike

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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. ↗

— Plato

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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

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