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 affairs to isolated groupings subject to unequivocal law ; and were it to reach its impossible goal , victory ... human being with the mind of a sixteenth - century tradesman driving a Rolls - Royce is still a human being with the ...
... human affairs to isolated groupings subject to unequivocal law ; and were it to reach its impossible goal , victory ... human being with the mind of a sixteenth - century tradesman driving a Rolls - Royce is still a human being with the ...
Contents
WE LOOK AT OURSELVES AND OUR COUNTRY | 1 |
IN PARTICULAR | 32 |
THINKING CONTINENTALLY | 65 |
Copyright | |
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