Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
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If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.John Boyd Orr
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
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