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Irving Babbitt Quotes

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Irving Babbitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Failure Achieve Important Difficult

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

Jello Biafra

Work Los Angeles Band Orchestra Open

It makes you feel like the pool is yours when you have your family there. You walk up to them and see them crying... and you know they are proud of you.

Sophie Pascoe

Family Walk Proud Feel You Pool

I applaud the professional athletes using their platform to voice their opinions.

Stan Van Gundy

Voice Opinions Professional Applaud

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Tom Stoppard

Art Theatre Feel Assume Got Because

Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.

Mitchell Baker

Money People Floating Suspicious Any

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

Josh Billings

Man Me Advice Find Kind Out

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Josh Billings

Faith Safety World Living Eat Would

The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.

Colin Morgan

Moment People Theatre Escape Movies

I've always had a hard time just being angry or just being really sad - the bigger emotions.

Briga Heelan

Sad Time Angry Emotions Hard Always

Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.

Antony Beevor

Memories Perspective War World Own

I think of myself as living so much outside borders or old categories that I choose as my leaders U2, the Dalai Lama, Vaclav Havel, Sigur Ros, Desmond Tutu, Barack Obama, and the girl next door. By definition, in short, my leaders are the ones who think in terms larger, and more intimate, than any country.

Pico Iyer

Girl Myself Door Think Short Choose

An issue that really concerned me when I was on the House Intelligence Committee was the quality of analysis.

Pete Hoekstra

Quality Intelligence Me House Really