The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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'Nothing so endangers the fineness of the human heart as the possession of power over others: nothing so corrodes it as the callous or cruel exercise of that power: and the more helpless the creature over whom power is cruelly or callously exercised, the more the human heart is corroded. It is the recognition of this truth which has brought the conscience of our age, and with it the law, to say that we cannot any longer with impunity regard ourselves as licensed torturers of the rest of creation; that we cannot, for our own sake, afford it.'
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place -- service -- social service -- the ants creed, the bees creed.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
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