The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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Clifton Fadiman. Human rights rest on human dignity . The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for . It is not so , as William James would have said , because it satisfies our habits or emotions , but because it ...
Clifton Fadiman. Human rights rest on human dignity . The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for . It is not so , as William James would have said , because it satisfies our habits or emotions , but because it ...
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... human virtue : I do and I must reverence human nature . I bless it for its kind affections . I honor it for its achievements in science and art , and still more for its examples of heroic and saintly virtue . These are marks of a divine ...
... human virtue : I do and I must reverence human nature . I bless it for its kind affections . I honor it for its achievements in science and art , and still more for its examples of heroic and saintly virtue . These are marks of a divine ...
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... human face , than they are like buildings and machines , the least of their representatives . The best proofs in ... human beings . When the accretion of houses reaches such a point of congestion that human association becomes difficult ...
... human face , than they are like buildings and machines , the least of their representatives . The best proofs in ... human beings . When the accretion of houses reaches such a point of congestion that human association becomes difficult ...
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IN GENERAL | 9 |
IN PARTICULAR | 32 |
THINKING CONTINENTALLY | 65 |
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