"If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill."
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"Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable."
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"I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts."
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"...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is."
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"Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be deserted by all men. For of the consolations which are to be derived from these (under any circumstances) the world cannot deprive me."
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"Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition."
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"Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder."
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"There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's a first approximation, but one that is real. In the former, the factors of integrity tend to dominate more over the factors of ideology. It's not that scientists are more honest people. It's just that nature is a harsh taskmaster. You can lie or distort the story of the French Revolution as long as you like, and nothing will happen. Propose a false theory in chemistry, and it'll be refuted tomorrow."
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"It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by helping make the government accountable to its citizens, and to inform the world of what its people should know."
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"Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'"
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"It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about."
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"It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business."
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"For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect."
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"How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!"
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"You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give."
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"We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?"
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"I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is."
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"Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work."
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"Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society."
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"What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator."
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