Irving Babbitt Quotes

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

Irving Babbitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1865 - July 15, 1933

Topics

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There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

Jill Abramson

NetworkingWayOverly

If a game is meant to be played by everybody, it deserves to be on multiple platforms so everybody can play it.

Jenova Chen

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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Andrew Young

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Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Stephen King

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Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.

Tom Hiddleston

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Rather than negotiating yet another continuing resolution at the last minute, the appropriations process should work as it was originally designed, with appropriations bills passing the House and the Senate and being signed into law by the president, after robust debate, with a process for amendments.

Tom Graves

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I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.

Roger Moore

ThoughtActorNeverMuchAnyway

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!

Dreama Walker

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I don't know what happens with other players or what is in their heads, but for me - just win.

David Silva

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I don't believe any particular ethnic group is smarter than any other group.

David Steinberg

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I'm in this business, man, and I honestly don't know anything about show business at all. I don't know how it works.

Bobby Lee

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When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!

Brooke Burke

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