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I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.
— John Edensor Littlewood
Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.
— Brian Tracy
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
— Irving Babbitt
Are you moving out?""Nope. Lost a bet. — Jamie McGuire
Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
— Irving Babbitt
I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
— Cate Blanchett
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
— Irving Babbitt
Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
— Irving Babbitt
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
— Irving Babbitt
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
— Irving Babbitt
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
— Irving Babbitt
It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.
— Irving Babbitt
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
— Irving Babbitt
Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
— Benjamin Franklin
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
— Irving Babbitt
If you're mad enough to have killed a dozen people you're mad enough to be a fraction impatient. Surely?
— Sebastian Faulks
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
— Irving Babbitt
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
— Irving Babbitt
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
— Irving Babbitt
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
— Irving Babbitt
Human mind is subject to the law of cause and effect. IF not, THEN you have no idea about IF-THEN algorithm. — Toba Beta
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
— Irving Babbitt
The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
