A life which does not go into action is a failure.

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The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

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A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

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I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

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America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

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Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

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I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

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History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

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