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"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery."
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"Keep the environment clean and the waters clear as crystal."
"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."
"If we connect with nature, we can reconstruct our soul, spirit and strength."
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"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."
"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."
"There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war."
"Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity."
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
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