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I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can b... - MORE I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Lisa Alther

contradiction

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Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all d... - MORE Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!

Thomas Carlyle

upper class, the

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The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation. The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.

Mason Cooley

wealth | happiness

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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well- bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not sl... - MORE There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well- bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

complaint

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A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised and... - MORE A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised and shocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

clubs

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But Shakspeare has no peculiarity, no importunate topic; but all is duly given; no veins, no curiosities: no cow-painter, no bird-... - MORE But Shakspeare has no peculiarity, no importunate topic; but all is duly given; no veins, no curiosities: no cow-painter, no bird-fancier, no mannerist is he: he has no discoverable egotism: the great he tells greatly; the small, subordinately. He is wise without emphasis or assertion; he is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort, and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs; a merit so incessant, that each reader is incredulous of the perception of other readers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakespeare, William

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The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer ... - MORE The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer the topic of this country. Its important questions are settled... Great minds hereafter are to be employed on other matters.... Government no longer has its ancient importance.... The people's progress, progress of every sort, no longer depends on government. But enough of politics. Henceforth I am out more than ever.

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

politics

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I shall not be surprised if Colonel [John Charles] Fremont receives less than one hundred electoral votes. But, after all, the goo... - MORE I shall not be surprised if Colonel [John Charles] Fremont receives less than one hundred electoral votes. But, after all, the good cause has made a great progress. Antislavery sentiment has been created and the people have been educated to a large extent. I did hope that this election would put an end to angry discussion upon this exciting topic by placing the general Government in the right position in regard to it and thereby securing to antislavery effort a foothold among those who have the evil in their midst. But further work is to be done and my sense of duty determines me to keep on in the path I have chosen ... to do what I can ... to aid in forming a public opinion on this subject which will "mitigate and finally eradicate the evil."

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

slavery | elections | politics

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My topic for Army reunions ... this summer: How to prepare for war in time of peace. Not by fortifications, by navies, or by stand... - MORE My topic for Army reunions ... this summer: How to prepare for war in time of peace. Not by fortifications, by navies, or by standing armies. But by policies which will add to the happiness and the comfort of all our people and which will tend to the distribution of intelligence [and] wealth equally among all. Our strength is a contented and intelligent community.

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

war

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We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intell... - MORE We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.

bell hooks

education | thinking | thoughtful | intellectual freedom

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