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• The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste.
  But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.

  Erich Fromm

  Character, Differences, Confusion

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Routledge

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• All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as
  equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to
  discover to you.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Believe, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

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• I also want to take cognizance of the fact that this flight was made out in the open with all the possibilities of failure, which would have been damaging to our country's prestige. Because great risks were taken in that regard, it seems to me that we have some right to claim that this open society of ours which risked much, gained much.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Taken, Risk

  Remarks at the Presentation of NASA's Distinguished Service Medal to Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 8, 1961.

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• Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Land, Promise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

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• There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been
  practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.

  Elbert Hubbard

  People, Three, Done

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “Little Journeys to the Homes Of...: Great musicians”

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• ... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  People, Heaven, Destined

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• I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

  Orson Welles

  Careers, Conviction

  Interview with Bernie Braden in Paris, 1960.

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• One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Solitude, Mind

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• If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.

  Malcolm X

  America, People, Black

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• In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.

  Baruch Spinoza

  People, Virtue, Intellect

  Baruch Spinoza (2017). “A Theologico-Political Treatise”, p.37, Jovian Press

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• The Democratic party is one that I've always observed. I have struggled greatly in life from the day I was born and I am honored to be apart of something that focuses on working class citizens and molds them into a proud specimen. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Kennedy have done so much in that regard for the two generations they've won over during their career course.

  Joan Crawford

  Party, Class, Careers

  NBC Interview, 1961.

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• Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain, when pain has passed, is nothing. Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity, conducting us to the Incomprehensible. In its progress there is a ripening power, and it ripens us the more, and the more powerfully, when we duly estimate it. Listen to its voice, do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Life, Pain, Voice

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• It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Men, Light, Views

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• Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as
  something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

  Pericles

  Beautiful, Real, Mind

  Funeral Oration, Athens, 430 B.C., in Thucydides 'History of the Peloponnesian War' ii.40, 1 (translation by Rex Warner)

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• Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Assessment, Agreement, People

  Message Of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI For The Celebration Of The World Day Of Peace, w2.vatican.va. January 1, 2008.

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• When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think that this is the reason that this alienation has allowed us to see and regard land mostly as a resource. So we have created a problem for ourselves from the word "go," for land is not a resource any more than humans are resources.

  Wes Jackson

  Thinking, Land, Agriculture

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• Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.

  Gilbert F. White

  Responsibility, Simple, Sea

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• The message from all quarters is the same: our undisciplined consumption must end. If we continue to gobble up our resources without any regard to stewardship and to spew out our deadly wastes over land, sea, and air, we may well be drawing down the final curtain upon ourselves.

  Richard J. Foster

  Drawing, Air, Sea

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• I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man. More especially, since it is impossible for me to have any positive, clear idea of that which is infinite and incomprehensible, I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  God, Religious, Father

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of the movement of the world-machine established in our behalf by the best and most systematic builder of all, existed among the philosophers who had studied so exactly in other respects the minutest details in regard to the sphere.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Long, Details, Machines

  "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Preface Letter to Pope Paul III)". Book by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543.

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• Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication, and if we take Ovid as a typical spokesman we should have to conclude that the keynote of his age was elegance. . . . Ovid could not possibly have taken himself, nor be taken for, an Ancient.

  Rolfe Humphries

  Taken, Unique, Should Have

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• If we view our children as stupid, naughty, disturbed, or guilty of their misdeeds, they will learn to behold themselves as foolish, faulty, or shameful specimens of humanity. They will regard us as judges from whom they wish to hide, and they will interpret everything we say as further proof of their unworthiness. If we view them as innocent, or at least merely ignorant, they will gain understanding from their experiences, and they will continue to regard us as wise partners.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Wise, Children, Stupid

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• As you go through life you realize that the love that you have for the people in your life and their love for you is all that matters. It's really about how you regard them and how they regard you.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  People, Matter, Realizing

  "Paltrow’s Pepper Potts Gets Physical in ‘Iron Man 3’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. April 27, 2013.

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• In a busy world, even as information is moving so rapidly, we have to learn who to trust in that regard even as we ourselves have to become more critical of the people who we want to trust. It's a weird situation.

  Alex Gibney

  Moving, People, World

  "Director Alex Gibney Talks WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS and His Next Documentary LANCE ARMSTRONG: THE ROAD BACK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 18, 2013.

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• I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish to discuss what is true and to listen to evidence and put evidence forward to other people and have a sensible, sane, moderated argument.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Wish, Passionate

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. March 7, 2010.

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