My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.
Dean Norris
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Better not be at all than not be noble.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
Pete McCloskey
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
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Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin Luther
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
James Madison
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It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus
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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.
David Mallet
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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Marcus Aurelius
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
Isaac D'Israeli
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
Pat Brown
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
Larry Brilliant
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When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
Camille Pissarro
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Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
John C. Maxwell
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There was a while where every role I was getting offered was extremely noble - like the judge or the kindly nurse.
John Cho
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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
John Ruskin
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Yeltsin was admirable but flawed, noble but tainted, but in his own negligent grandeur, he undermined his own real achievements - and accelerated their ruin.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.
Michael Korda
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The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
Joshua Chamberlain
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What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?
Cindy Sheehan
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