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  1. Charles Murray _ Coming Apart: The State of

    the most lovable of exceptional American qualities {is} our tradition of insisting that we are part of the middle class, even if we aren't, and of interacting with our fellow citizens as if we were all middle class.
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  2. Alain de Botton _ The Pleasures and Sorrows of

    For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps, the deserts, the volcanoes and the glaciers that had given us a sense of finitude and limitation and had elicited a feeling in which fear and respect coagulated into a strangely pleasing feeling of humility, a feeling which the philosophers of the eighteenth century had famously termed the sublime.But then had come a transformation to which we were still the heirs.... Over the course of the nineteenth century, the dominant catalyst for that feeling of the sublime had ceased to be nature. We were now deep in the era of the technological sublime, when awe could most powerfully be invoked not by forests or icebergs but by supercomputers, rockets and particle accelerators. We were now almost exclusively amazed by ourselves.
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  3. Ellis Peters _ A Morbid Taste for Bones

    It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.
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  4. Karen Traviss _ Aspho Fields

    I've never met a soldier who knew he was a hero. It's not false modesty. They simply decide to do something that they know they must do, usually for there comrades, because if they don't, those people will suffer in some way. For them, that compulsion is far stronger than any fear. The fact we find it exceptional is a sad indictment of the human race. I'd like to live in a world of heroes. If we did, there would be no wars.
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  5. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.
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  6. C.S. Lewis _ Mere Christianity

    As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.
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  7. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.
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  8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Idiot

    You know, in my opinion, being ridiculous is sometimes even a good thing, and better than that: we can forgive one another more quickly, and acquire humilty more quickly; after all, we can't understand everything at once, we can't begin directly from perfection!
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  9. Cornel West _ Race Matters

    To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status. And, even more pointedly, to be humble is to revel in the accomplishments or potentials of others -- especially those with whom one identifies and to whom one is linked organically.
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  10. Bill Bryson _ In a Sunburned Country

    She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.
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  11. Bill Bryson _ One Summer: America, 1927

    It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.
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  12. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.
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