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As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other…
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After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to…
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There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life…
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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the…
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The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
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Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a…
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We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no…
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Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and…
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The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it…
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It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war…
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As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to…
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In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One,…
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All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of…
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Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god…
— Whitley Strieber
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We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They…
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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods,…
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would…
— Xenophanes
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Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw…
— Xenophanes
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The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.
— Xenophanes
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It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their…
— William Robertson Smith
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With Free minds all are to worship their Gods
— Unknown Author
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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the…
— John Boyd Orr
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Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations…
— Mahathir Mohamad
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In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.
— Sunil Gangopadhyaya
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