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“Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.”

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... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have…

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Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

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...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

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Each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable.

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But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a…

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With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from…

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It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to…

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There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve…

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Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his…

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The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies…

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Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the…

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The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep…

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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and…

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Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

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Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000…

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The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing…

Carl von Clausewitz

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…

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“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.”

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We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the…

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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many…

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

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