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Emily Greene Balch

"We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act."

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"We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well."

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"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act."

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Emily Greene Balch
"A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe."

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Emily Greene Balch
"A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason."

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Emily Greene Balch
"In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend."

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Emily Greene Balch
"Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society."

Man

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Emily Greene Balch
"Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology."

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Emily Greene Balch
"We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act."

Act

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Emily Greene Balch
"Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common."

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Emily Greene Balch
"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

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Emily Greene Balch
"A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples."

Time

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Emily Greene Balch
"Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate."

Time

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