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I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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I'm always honest. ↗

— Victoria Azarenka

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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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