Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a … - Arnold J. Toynbee

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Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the words that motivates the words, that conveys real communication and meaning.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

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The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

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We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

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Everything I've done, I've done because I wanted to do it. In doing it, I've plunged in headlong, always believing in it.

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I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

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The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life.

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There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.

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