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- Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges…
- I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the…
- The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic…
- The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise,…
- It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips…
- There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning.…
- Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.
- I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.
- It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.
- Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest…
- We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with…
- A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He…
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