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 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... human beings but my faith is without sentimentality . I know that in environments of uncertainty , fear and hunger , the human being is dwarfed and shaped without his being aware of it , just as the plant struggling under a stone does ...
... human beings but my faith is without sentimentality . I know that in environments of uncertainty , fear and hunger , the human being is dwarfed and shaped without his being aware of it , just as the plant struggling under a stone does ...
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