"Human nature seems to me like the Alps.……" — Emily Greene Balch
"Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine."
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26 Quotes by Emily Greene Balch
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Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone,…
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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and…
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As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.
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The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
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Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change…
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Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution…
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The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have…
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Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps…
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A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny…
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We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner.…
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It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.
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A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral…
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,...
— Alexander Pope
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Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has…
— Grete Waitz
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Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘That’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’
— Elton John
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I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing…
— Mavis Gallant
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Wig Out At Jagbags is inspired by Cologne, Germany, Mark Von Schlegell, Rosemarie Trockel, Von Spar and Jan Lankisch, Can…
— Stephen Malkmus
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Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps…
— Benito Mussolini
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And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place…
— Patricia Hewitt
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Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from…
— Unknown Author
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Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward…
— Edward Burnett Tylor
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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which…
— Mark Twain
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