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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.

Barbara Ward

Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Indeed Wisdom
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 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
in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.
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Men Order Past
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
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Environmental Rivers Science
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
man’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.
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Men Occupation War
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
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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Believe Faith People
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
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
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 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
Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
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Gone Moral Unity
Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
BARBARA WARD

Believe Law Progress
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

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