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«Affirmative action is the attempt to deal with malignant racism by instituting benign racism»
Author: Elliott Larson
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affirmative, affirmative action, benign, instituted, instituting, malignant, racism
«The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.»
«A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.»
Author: Richard Hofstadter
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«The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost / for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
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«The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.»
«When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.»
«I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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alloy, alloyed, anticipate, benign, partaken, partakes, partake in, partaking, retreat
«O soft embalmer of the still midnight, / Shutting, with careful fingers and benign / Our gloom-pleased eyes.»
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