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Emily Greene Balch

"The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule."

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"The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule."

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"Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it."

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"I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane."

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"Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time."

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"Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called 'Gnani' [the enlightened one]."

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"The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest."

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"The eye of a man is never satisfied with seeing."

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"Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can't manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only 'find' these things, we will never sense any compulsion to 'find' God."

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"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."

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