Word: nobler
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...Oklahoma case, it may have been a nobler motive that tripped up McGee. "McGee is a good surgeon and a decent man," maintains his whistle-blowing research nurse, Mathias. "But he became a biased investigator. He thought he had found the cure for cancer. He really wasn't interested in running a clinical trial; he wanted to administer his drug"--even if that meant breaking the rules to get there. Although McGee said he had tested his drug properly on animals, he had not; the data he submitted in his original protocol came from animal studies of a different drug...
...There never was a nobler reason to miss Christmas. A few thousand of you are making 250 million stateside holiday seasons a little safer, a little happier at the end of a year in which feeling safe and happy in America has maybe never been harder. I figure you know how lucky that makes you, to be a soldier of democracy when - and where - the soldiers of democracy are needed most...
...memorable, short prayer at the heart of the Twelve-Step treatment program, it's folly to seek to control the uncontrollable. The behavior of others, by definition, is uncontrollable, and all we can hope to govern is ourselves. What a cop-out, huh? Wouldn't it be nobler by far to fight the good fight with all the weapons available: a firm bass voice, a wagging finger, the Bible? After all, this teen-drinking business is serious. Just because I survived my 12-pack road trips and puke-a-thon proms doesn't mean my daughter will. That scares...
...fights ought not be taken as proof that national standards are unworkable. National standards serve a much more ambitious cause than the sats, and also a nobler one - not identifying a few very smart students regardless of background, Cinderella style, but trying to ensure that all students reliably acquire basic educational skills and therefore a meaningful chance in life...
prudence of their nobler reason, there can be but one ultimate conclusion...