When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.
Rob Bell
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He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Ludwig Tieck
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The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator.
Joseph P. Bradley
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It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
Apollonius of Tyana
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Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
Philip Zimbardo
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There is a noble and a base side to every history.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.
Mark Helprin
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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Khalil Gibran
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The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.
Howard Fineman
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I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
George Sand
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
Franz Grillparzer
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire
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It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
Paul Conrad
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I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
Keanu Reeves
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For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit... We mean to appeal to their intellects... and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists.
Frank Crowninshield
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I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
Egon Schiele
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
Sam Kean
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I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
Macaulay Culkin
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At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
Gabriela Mistral
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
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He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
John Fletcher
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Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
Jean Froissart
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We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
Stephen Leacock
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In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.
Rocco DiSpirito
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