The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

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What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

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It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life.

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The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

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Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

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