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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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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
Business shouldn’t be like sports, separating the men from the women.
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Discrimination Men Sports
To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and governments work intelligently and far-sightedly for the good of others, they achieve their own prosperity, too.
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Facts Government People
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
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
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
I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful … servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.
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Choices Liberty Mean
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that “we choose death.”
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DNA Life Science
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
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.
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Feet Idols World
man’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.
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Men Occupation War
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
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
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
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

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