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A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

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To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

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The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

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In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

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The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

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If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

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Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

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Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

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The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

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I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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