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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

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To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. ↗

— Mark Twain

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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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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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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. ↗

— Roger Ebert

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