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I wrote about Emily Apt who initially became a caseworker in the welfare system because she decided that was the most noble thing she could do, but quickly learned, not only did she not like it, but she wasn't really good at it.
And I said, "Well it's odd that you've learned of this as a noble kind of pursuit, but yeah, I know those guys."
One great challenge of modern life is to find the staircase amid all the clutter and then to do something good and noble once you climb to the top.
But if you can't win, then you should fight for a noble cause, because then you'll be remembered.
Helping Africa is noble.
And we can lose this with the very noble idea to keep people accountable for showing the people that we're not going to tolerate politicians the opportunism in politics.
From the rubble of death and devastation arise the most gallant and noble human beings.
On the field of battle, we are brave and noble warriors.
We have a noble path to curing the disease, patients and doctors alike, but there doesn't seem to be a noble path to dying.
He tells him how to say a noble goodbye, a goodbye that's fit for a hero.
For example, this is a noble fir seed we found.
Now I'm not saying that our ancestors were noble savages, and I'm not saying modern day hunter-gatherers are noble savages either.
And so this raises the question, and so, as Smith puts it, "When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble?"
For them, biology had shaped part of their destiny, and put, as Cassie once said, "everything noble out of reach for girls."
But part of this Internet is being held captive by the less noble aspects of our human behavior.
As far as we know, Medieval England was never invaded by ice zombies, or terrorized by dragons, but it was shaken by a power struggle between two noble families spanning generations and involving a massive cast of characters with complex motives and shifting loyalties.
Furthermore, he thought that society should be divided into three groups: producers, the military, and the rulers, and that a great noble lie should convince everyone to follow this structure.
The noble lie he proposed was that we're all born with gold, silver, or a mixture of brass and iron in our souls, which determine our roles in life.
Some thinkers have gone on to credit the idea of the noble lie as a prototype for 20th century propaganda, and the philosopher king as inspiration for the dictators that used them.
Many credit Queen Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese noble woman, for making tea popular with the English aristocracy when she married King Charles II in 1661.
I thought violent jihad was noble, chivalrous and the best way to help.
They passed a new law allowing the creation of genetically modified humans with the noble goal of trying to prevent a rare kind of genetic disease.
Patriotism is, in many ways, a very noble thing.
The third noble truth said that ignorance can be overcome.
Liberals have very noble motives for doing this.
But perhaps my old friend Lyndon Johnson might have put it in less noble fashion: "Better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in." (Laughter) But it soon became clear that Abraham Lincoln would emerge as the undisputed captain of this unruly team.
It tells you everything about business except how to be a noble leader.
We need noble researchers like Rick Doblin working on this, but we also need the selfish jerks who are way more numerous to appreciate the fact that acute suffering will soon endanger all of us, not just those afflicted.
Is he a noble son avenging his father?
That's why the child's development in the orchestra and the choir provides him with a noble identity and makes him a role model for his family and community.
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