"It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians."

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Source : Charles Fletcher Dole (1897). “The Coming People”

Charles Fletcher Dole

#Selfish Quotes #Men Quotes #World Quotes

“Unless you heal the root of a problem, the pain will not go away. You can hide from it, but the problem stays until you dig deep.”
“I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.”
“...if it comes to a choice between regulated studies on a few animals and a treatment for an incurable disease... most people reluctantly make the same choice.”
“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

Source : President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.
“I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.”
“I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.”
“The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.”

Source : Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, Raymond W. Gastil (1986). “Pride of Place: Building the American Dream”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.”

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