But he quickly abandoned the commercial world because he wanted to do something nobler.
The critical element to every transcendent purpose is a commitment to serving something bigger and nobler than ourselves.
Dixie, weeping over dying soldiers, just seems to get nobler and nobler as the bodies accumulate around her.
In this mythology, the shorter you are, the nobler you're likely to prove.
In all cases there's a change to the self -- a kind of opening to our higher, nobler possibilities.
But some countries contend that boue can be treated in ways that transform it into something altogether nobler than mere sludge.
Part of Mr Mandela's saintly aura derives from his tireless appeal to South Africans' nobler instincts, such as forgiveness and remorse.
All suggestions that war might be a bad thing are crudely juxtaposed with strong messages that there is no finer, nobler brotherhood than professional soldiery.
But the three others, America, Britain and France, nowadays proclaim nobler principles and, over Kosovo at least, have been prepared to rain down bombs and rockets for them.
It is fixated solemnly on bringing peace and prosperity to nations, a task its bureaucrats tend to find intrinsically nobler than that of bringing freedom and happiness to individuals.
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This also struck us as a much nobler use of our technology to bring inexpensive banking services to upwards of 3 billion people rather than simply making music easier to share.
Many of my progressive, and even many of my politically apathetic, friends honestly, deeply and sincerely believe that the work that takes place inside these massive marble and sandstone edifices in Washington, and in federal buildings around the country, must be undertaken by people who are nobler, smarter and wiser than mere citizens.
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