"Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first dealing with family and community problems. If we organized for normal families and communities - if these two groups provided the functions they are designed for - world problems would diminish and fade out in two or three generations."

-- Ralph Borsodi

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“If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.”
“I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.”
“Raw I'mma give it to ya, with no trivia. Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.”
“It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.”
“We strive towards a better world, but one can never do it without compromise. We can all change the world for the better, starting in your own little surroundings, together with people who believe in it, too. This way you can make it work and show others that it actually can work. That doesn't mean that everybody has to do it like you "or else..." If there is no compromise possible, then it turns into extremism, and I don't think that extremism ever added something positive to the world.”
“I'd love to tell you that something is going to change tomorrow. But the reality is that it won't.”
“Change is certain. Progress is not.”

Source : "From Napoleon to Stalin and Other Essays". Book by Edward Hallett Carr, 1980.
“Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. ... Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by.”

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