Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed … - Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

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democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

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Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

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. . . the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.

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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

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