"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
-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.“
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"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."
-Irving Babbitt
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"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."
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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."
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"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
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"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."
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"I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place."
-Kevin Alejandro
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"The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history."
-Frank Waters
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"So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place."
-Christian Cooke
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"Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes."
-Anne Boyd
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"In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity."
-Anne Boyd
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"A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him."
-Arthur Symons
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