This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
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There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.
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I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
Asa Gray