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When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated…

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The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is…
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses...
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but…
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and…
We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new…
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the…
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an…
Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will,…
Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued. — Irvin S. Cobb
I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me… — Adolf Hitler
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. — Leon Askin
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Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the… — John Milton
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. — Irvin S. Cobb
Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. — H. L. Mencken
The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations… — Richard M. Nixon
Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity. — Harold Brodkey
When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time… — Raul Grijalva
Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search… — Paul Gauguin

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