"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."

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Source : Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

Irving Babbitt

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“We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.”

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“I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen”
“A girl should get so lost in God, that a guy has to seek God to find her!”
“To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.”

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“On a scale of one to 10, I'd rate my body confidence as a good seven. Everyone has their hang-ups, but I see my body as a training tool and I feel good about it.”

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“The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.”
“If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.”

Source : Rudolf Virchow, Frank CHANCE (1860). “Cellular Pathology as based upon physiological and pathological histology. Twenty lectures delivered in ... 1858. Translated from the second edition of the original by F. Chance. With notes and numerous emendations principally from MS. notes of the author, and illustrated by ... engravings on wood.”, p.10
“The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.”

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