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humanism
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    For two days I tried to wrestle meaning from the textbook's dense passages, but terms like "civic humanism" and "the Scottish Enlightenment" dotted the page like black holes, sucking all the other words into them.†  (source)
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    From youthful enthusiasm he had moved to a position that he himself defined as fatalistic humanism: "Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain."†  (source)
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    A member of the moderate wing of the party, Professor Bieganski, then a rising young faculty star in his thirties, wrote an article in a leading Warsaw political journal deploring these assaults, which caused Sophie a number of years later to wonder—when she happened upon the essay—whether he hadn't suffered a spasm of radical-utopian humanism.†  (source)
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    My colleagues would probably be greatly offended that a humanist crossed the windbreak into their field, and would bark like dogs until I crossed back.†  (source)
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    Hence the encouragement we have given to all those schemes of thought such as Creative Evolution, Scientific Humanism, or Communism, which fix men's affections on the Future, on the very core of temporality.†  (source)
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    But because Lincoln never attached himself to an organized religion as an adult, his ability to combine the secular and the religious in the way he goes about his life will later have everyone from atheists to humanists to Calvinists claiming that he is one of theirs.†  (source)
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    So I backed up and shifted to the classic-romantic split that I think underlies the whole humanist-technological problem.†  (source)
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    BERENGER: I mean the human individual, humanism ... JEAN: Humanism is all washed up!†  (source)
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    In this respect our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences.†  (source)
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    Shay Bourne is not a Muslim, or a Wiccan; he's not a secular humanist or a member of the Baha'i faith.†  (source)
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    Gerald is both an individual and someone corrupted by the values of industry (Lawrence identifies him as a "captain of industry"), while Gudrun loses much of her initial humanism through association with the "corrupt" sort of modern artists.†  (source)
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    The resolution of the arguments of the Cosmologists came from a new direction entirely, from a group Phaedrus seemed to feel were early humanists.†  (source)
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    It is the quarrel between the religious and the humanist attitudes towards life.†  (source)
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