As Ryan probably knows my sentiments are unfashionable and hinge on notions like noblesse oblige and the burden of privilege.

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States, not to view arms control as an exercise in noblesse oblige.

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He was a nob, with a sense of noblesse oblige.

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Obama uses a warped logic of federal noblesse oblige to dispense a bag full of goodies from tuition tax credits, to a mortgage refinancing credit, to public works projects.

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Although he celebrated the idea of a functioning American aristocracy as a useful exemplar of industriousness and noblesse oblige, he spent his career lamenting that they had abdicated their responsibilities.

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Only somebody intently attuned to the lives of the parents and their suffering would have understood that the Special Olympics was not just a classical act of noblesse oblige, handing something down patronizingly to the suffering poor, but of self-help as well.

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