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"A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed."
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"It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!"
"The messages emphasizing miracles and breakthrough must be replaced if our nation must move forward."
"Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do."
"Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism " the tendencies of greed " the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust."
"We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development."
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"It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world."
"As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved."
"When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand."
"As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform."
"The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction."
"The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies."
"And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction."
"True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions."
"The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war."
"As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests."
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