Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
BARBARA WARD
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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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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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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man’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.
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We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that “we choose death.”
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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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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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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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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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