The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.
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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
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