Irving Babbitt Quotes

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

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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'NYT Opinion' offers our readers what we think are the most stimulating and interesting points of view you can find anywhere.

Andrew Rosenthal

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The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

Spencer Bachus

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Trolling taps into people's desire to poke fun, make trouble and cause annoyance.

Rob Manuel

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I'd argue that in the last few decades in America, when people are asked what they hope the future will look like, they still turn to 'Star Trek.' They hope we put aside our differences and come together as humanity, that we rise above war, poverty, racism, and other problems that have beset us.

Ronald D. Moore

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It's been so great to have an album people believe in.

Jon Pardi

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I am a human being. I started out with virtually nothing. I worked my way up like so many businesspeople have and made ourselves great in this country. And that is what we have to make sure we preserve for our grandchildren and future generations all the way through.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

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You're your own person, and it's about you. I'm my own person, and it's about me. Everyone has their own life.

Dee Rees

LifeMeYouPersonMy OwnOwn

If I'd had more courage, I would've pursued a less commercial path. Maybe I would've gone into musical theater.

Debbie Millman

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Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Christy Turlington

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I think, as a fighter, I kept improving. My movements improved, my accuracy improved.

Chuck Liddell

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You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.

Alice Cooper

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In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

Susan Sontag

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