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Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all know some who claim that it is so. In my judgement, it is thoughtless folly. For it ignores the realities of human faith and of passion and of belief; forces ultimately more powerful than all the calculations of our economists or of our generals. Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.”

“Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.”

People Ifs Giving Sometimes Feelings Action Wish Pleasure Claims Wicked Virtuous Good Actions

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they go and gather and gossip. ...Whatever the circumstances the genius has put you into, the fact of individuality defends the soul against all class-action claims. No soul is mediocre, whatever your personal taste for conventionality, whatever your personal record of middling achievements.”

Mean Soul Facts Use Action Enjoy Class Records Style Genius Circumstances Taste Achievement Clothes Claims Individuality Gossip Mediocre Hallmark Snob Conventionality Personal Taste

Author:James Hillman

“It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like, in my opinion, Eritrea, undoubtedly need to be considered a country of origin with a valid claim to asylum. And with a third group of states, like Nigeria for example, each individual case needs to be evaluated. Then there are also very controversial cases like Afghanistan. In any case, united European action is needed. This argument for Europeanization may sound utopian, but there is no alternative.”

“The claim that the Government made that there were 21 measures in it is wrong. We said we wanted to wait till we saw the bill because we didn't to trust that it would be as they described and it's turned out we were exactly right for saying that. The Government has been entirely deceptive with this. And if their first action is to lie to the Australian people about what was meant to be their centrepiece bill, that really tells you want the [Malcolm] Turnbull Government's going to be about.”

People Ifs Want Firsts Has Beens Made Said Government Would Be Action Wanted Lying Waiting Saws Claims Bills Meant To Be Australian Deceptive Were Meant To Be

Author:Tony Burke

“Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing more than affirmative action and can make no claim to being part of America's greatness.”

Action America Greatness Diversity Claims Sake Affirmative Action Affirmative

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.”

Government Action Company Involved Pure Claims Despite Expenses Corny Hacking Computer Hacking

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”

People Inspirational Firsts Two Action Funny Groups Type Claims Accomplish Accomplished Motivational Sports Crowded Crowded Places

Author:Mark Twain

“They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.”

Feels Whole Action Natural Pleasure Ought Claims Distinction Reserves

Book:The Immoralist

Source: The Immoralist

“The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.”

Action Consequence Claims Karma Indifferent Our Actions Consequences Of Our Actions

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do... And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that...will protect us all. We are all meant to be here together.”

“Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a great cathedral? If such achievements represent anything more than the requirements of physical law, it means that science must investigate the additional controlling factors, whatever they may be, in order that the world of nature may be adequately understood.”

“But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.”

Action Claims Instinct Intervention

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

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