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Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

Barbara Ward

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.
BARBARA WARD

Believe Faith People
It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.
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One Person Something Stronger Want
The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.
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Fall Gaps Wealth
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
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Ends Facts Overwhelmed
man’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.
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Men Occupation War
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
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Done Important West
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
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Done Half Important
It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.
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Investing Men Rich
Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
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Gone Moral Unity
If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.
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Believe Men Progress
The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.
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Institutions Raw Materials Social
the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.
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Island Ocean White
Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
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Believe Law Progress
Business shouldn’t be like sports, separating the men from the women.
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Discrimination Men Sports
the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
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Political Poor Nations Rich
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.
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Greed Mean Survival

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

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Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

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