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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which…

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International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would…
Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always…
There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is…
The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life…
Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion…
The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity that gives…
The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow…
It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and…
Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions.…
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's…
....Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a…
The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail…

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Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good… — Amory Lovins
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the… — J. William Fulbright
Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril. — Sven Birkerts
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril — Andrew Motion
What was once a tiny seed of belief for me has grown into the tree of life, so if your faith is… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at… — Logan Pearsall Smith
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy
Animals are not just other species. They are other nations. And we murder them at our peril. The peace map is drawn… — Philip Wollen
General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it… — C. V. Wedgwood
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. — Voltaire
It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them… — Robert Fulghum
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard. — Voltaire

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