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“Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.”

Acceptance Claims Mere Merit Awkward Modesty Modest Patron Beholder Insolent Bashfulness

Book:The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

“The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like Animal Farm, where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals?”

Stills Animal Events Equal Members Direct Claims Mere Clubs Farms Commonwealth Blair Zimbabwe

Author:Robert Mugabe

“Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies that somebody falsely claims the right to tolerate. Toleration is a concession, while liberty is a right. Toleration is a matter of expediency, while liberty is a matter of principle.”

Matter Differences Liberty Principles Atheism Claims Absolutes Mere Positive Atheism Wide Tolerate Contention Concessions Toleration Expediency

Author:George W Truett

“The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.”

Ifs Way Real Leader Moral Watches Fashion Claims Mere Genuine Chains Titles Carrie Goods Assurance Abiding Supremacy Obtaining Pretence Precedence

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but "feeding on unearned wealth." This hurts their nature and debases the social fabric. If a woman does no labor in her home which could properly make her self-supporting outside that home she is in duty bound to do something outside her home to justify her claim to support.”

Ifs Doe Self Use Home Values Social Hurt Wealth Class Support Duty Labor Claims Slave Mere Bounds Creator Servant Justify Fabric Feeding Selected

Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture

Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture

“The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner, that he thinks it mere condescension in him; and that his goodness alone bestows upon you what you have no pretense to claim.”

Ifs Thinking Men Shows Proud Goodness Claims Mere Shocking Civility Pretense Rudeness Condescension Insolent Proud Man

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.”

Men Mean Doe Suffering Values Ability Kindness Virtue Progress Sacrifice Worst Claims Mere Generosity Flaws Altruism Incompetence Stagnation

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.”

“Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have seen miracles or to have had encounters with messiahs and prophets and redeemers who were, like them, mere humans. And this is also why we will never submit to dictation from those who display a fanatical belief in certainty and revelation.”

“Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of belonging to the sky, of owning and being owned - if only for a moment - by the air I breathe. It is akin to the well known claim of the swallow: each bird staking out his personal bug-strewn slice of heaven, his inviolate property of the blue.”

Ifs Feels Wells Sometimes Moments Feelings Seems Heaven Known Air Sky Strange Bird Claims Blue Property Mere Breathe Flying Flight Aviation Belonging Well Known Bugs Stimulus Exhilaration

Book:Song of the Sky

Source: Song of the Sky

“No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or which idol or which city was the truly holy one. Thus, the only thing that should be upheld at all costs and without qualification is the right of free expression, because if that goes, then so do all other claims of right as well.”

Ifs Should Wells Book Able Cities Expression Holy Cost Claims Sacred Mere Idols Qualifications Primates Free Expression

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).”