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We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.

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David Lilienthal

Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.

Evil, Inner Strength, Mean, Nature, Productiveness, Strength
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It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.

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Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

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We keep saying, 'We have no other course. ' What we should say is: 'We are not bright enough to see any other course. '

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The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

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Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.

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