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"Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history."
"And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."
"If you take it step by step, you shall least miss a step!"
"You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing."
"The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you."
"Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce."
Explore more quotes by Howard Mumford Jones
"I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us."
"When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration."
"Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history."
"Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it."
"Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit."
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