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Barbara Ward

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
Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Indeed Wisdom
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
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
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
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
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
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
Business shouldn’t be like sports, separating the men from the women.
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Discrimination Men Sports
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
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
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 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
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 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

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