Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing – don’t live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don’t get stuck inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat.
BARBARA WARD
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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