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• Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Fall, Government, Hands

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• There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

  Charles de Lint

  Mean, People, Competition

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• I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him.

  Hillary Clinton

  Party, Mean, Thinking

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• Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited or over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Enemy, Body

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination.

  Hassan al-Banna

  Wisdom, Strong, Islamic

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• The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Beautiful, Cowboy, Feet

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• Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

  John Cleese

  Mean, Comedy, Mean Spirited

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• We, the United States, have to be guilty. We have to be guilty. We have to be underperforming. We have to be not showing compassion or dignity or whatever code word is used to transmit the notion that we're mean-spirited, that we're selfish, and that we're probably bigoted and racist and don't want people here like that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Selfish, Mean, Compassion

  "America Leads the World in Goodness". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I'm very free-spirited.

  Lady Gaga

  "The Real Lady Gaga". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 6, 2011.

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• I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads come on?" I got good at saying, "Relax. Clear your skin up first." They called me "the insult guy," but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, Talking, Guy

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• I've never been mean-spirited, in my opinion. I never did anything below the belt.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, Opinion, Belts

  Source: www.maxim.com

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• The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

  George Stephanopoulos

  Selfish, Stupid, Intelligent

  George Stephanopoulos (1999). “All Too Human: A Political Education”

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• These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.

  Patricia Hampl

  Grief, Views, Profound

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• Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme.

  James Boswell

  Men, Starting Up, Class

  James Boswell (2008). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.249, Wordsworth Editions

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• We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Christian, Religious, Adults

  Stephen L. Carter (1993). “The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion”, Basic Books

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• Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Believe, Character, Past

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• For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

  Michael Schur

  Mean, People, Purpose

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I'm free-spirited, and it gets me into trouble.

  Sienna Miller

  Trouble

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• The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Real, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Mean, Men

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry.

  Sarah Fielding

  Eye, Mean, Wish

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (1754). “The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable”, p.33

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• My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teaching, Writing, Happy Life

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• I'm ... free-spirited. Maybe a little too free-spirited.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Littles

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• Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.

  Tom Tomorrow

  Powerful, Mean, Names

  Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2001.

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• We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.

  Paul Kurtz

  Art, Good Life, Cheer

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