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• Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself.

  Ralph Wiley

  Football, War, Men

  Ralph Wiley (2000). “Serenity: A Boxing Memoir”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

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• Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Get Well, Health, Noble

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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• From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.

  Khalil Gibran

  Happiness, Kindness, Spring

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Lying, Fall, Creative

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• If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise, if you would be among the pure in heart, you must be pure in heart.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Wise, Heart, Would Be

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• Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for a purifying of the nation's gene pool, so that Germans could regain the nobility and greatness of their genetically pure forebears.

  Alison Thompson

  Greatness, Eugenics, Blood

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• The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.

  L. Frank Baum

  War, Fall, Hands

  Saturday Pioneer editorial, December 20, 1890.

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• The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.

  John Simon

  Names, Evil, Slim

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• Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.

  Walt Kelly

  Self, Hands, People

  Walt Kelly (1974). “Pogo revisited: containing the complete volumes of The Pogo poop book, Instant Pogo [and] The Jack Acid Society black book”, Simon & Schuster

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• A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

  James A. Garfield

  Pride, Noble, Earth

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.326, Best Books on

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• When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Appreciate, Noble, Done

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.239, David M Gross

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• From the peak of Chimborazo (volcano) to the Pacific coast, from the Amazon rainforest to the Galapagos Islands, may you never lose the ability to thank God for what he has done and is doing for you, may you never lose the ability to protect what is small and simple, to care for your children and your elderly, to have confidence in the young, and to be constantly struck by the nobility of your people and the singular beauty of your country.

  Pope Francis

  Confidence, Country, Children

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• Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and technology. Many recent discoveries have brought undeniable benefits to humanity. Indeed, they demonstrate the nobility of the human vocation to participate responsibly in God's creative action in the world. Unfortunately, it is now clear that the application of these discoveries in the fields of industry and agriculture have produced harmful long-term effects.

  Pope John Paul II

  Character, Technology, Agriculture

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• I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, People, Wish

  Interview with Alfonso Cuarón, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Fear, Risk, Trying

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• If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors.

  Perry DeAngelis

  Rising, Flip, Sides

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• Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil flame of her unspoiled soul should radiate purity and nobility upon an indefinitely extended family.

  Rebecca West

  Home, Sacrifice, Self

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• In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.

  David Adjaye

  Creating, Textiles, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Agriculture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

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• In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility and grandeur to the highest degree; it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. Directed by the will of the master, the trombones can chant like a choir of priests, threaten, utter gloomy sighs, a mournful lament, or a bright hymn of glory; they can break forth into awe-inspiring cries and awaken the dead or doom the living with their fearful voices.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Religious, Powerful

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• I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.

  Ricky Gervais

  Office, Firsts, Poverty

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2013.

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• The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind.

  Atisa

  Lying, Mind, Taming

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• You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.

  Charlie Sheen

  Mcdonalds, Vaccines, Judging

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• What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Mean, Interest

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• Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.

  Catharine Sedgwick

  Heaven, Democracy, Patents

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