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What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.
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An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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Isabel Paterson
Born:
January 22, 1886
Died:
January 10, 1961
(aged 74)
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Isabel Paterson was a Canadian-American journalist, novelist, political philosopher, and a leading literary and cultural critic of her day.
Known for:
The God of the Machine (1943)
Never Ask the End (1933)
The golden vanity (1934)
The magpie's nest (1917)
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