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

Barbara Ward

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.
BARBARA WARD

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

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