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"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."

"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."

"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."

"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

"That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens."
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"Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause."

"But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League."

"The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity."

"Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries."

"In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war."

"He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace."

"The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations."

"As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties."

"The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization."
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