#noble

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? ↗

— Milton Friedman

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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. ↗

— Tecumseh

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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. ↗

— George Orwell

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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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