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Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.

Barbara Ward

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
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.
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Believe Law Progress
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
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
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
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
Business shouldn’t be like sports, separating the men from the women.
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Discrimination Men Sports
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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Ego People Sacrifice
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
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

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