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That kind of highmindedness is not naive or a sign of inexperience.
Obama Vs. Hillary: Who Has The Magic Bullet Needed To Beat Republicans? 2009
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I wouldn't call it "highmindedness" by Ruth on Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008 at 2: 38: 03 PM
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The people who read the AFI list are looking for movies with any kind of cultural significance rather than some simplified, cliched moral highmindedness.
TMP: Truly insidious Moral Piety from the Heartland » Scene-Stealers 2009
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Oleeb, I agree with your initial sentiments, but are you aware of the irony of your call to highmindedness, followed immediately by the accusation that Obama did not believe what he was saying in his speech, but was just trying to sound centrist out of fear.
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Let's hope highmindedness doesn't lead to 12% unemployment because we're 1 or 2 votes short of a filibuster proof majority.
Obama: "I Agree" With Senate Dems On Not Seating Burris 2009
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Those of you Obama supporters that think that highmindedness is going to work against this snake in the grass, nasty harridan named Shrillary Clinto-Lieberman, really need to lay off the hard stuff.
Hillary Campaign Calls On Obama To Fire Adviser Who Called Hillary A "Monster" 2009
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The thrust of Hazlitt's passage -- Hazlitt's prose is a series of thrusts -- is that liberals must not be vain about their ideals and highmindedness, and fight as fiercely for what is right as their foes fight for what is wrong.
Fight Makes Right: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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By highmindedness I mean the desire whereby every man endeavours, solely under the dictates of reason, to aid other men and to unite them to himself in friendship.
The Ethics 2007
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Those actions, therefore, which have regard solely to the good of the agent I set down to courage, those which aim at the good of others I set down to highmindedness.
The Ethics 2007
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Thus temperance, sobriety, and presence of mind in danger, &c., are varieties of courage; courtesy, mercy, &c., are varieties of highmindedness.
The Ethics 2007
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