We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.
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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
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The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.
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The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
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