"Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act."
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"It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart."
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"Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases."
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"Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world."
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"Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed."
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"It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose."
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"I have had the privilege of losing everything."
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"It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little."
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"I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?"
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"Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister."
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"Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities."
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"I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?"
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"We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined."
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"Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego."
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"Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!"
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"Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free."
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"The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?"
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"The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition."
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"Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility."
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"To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles."
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