Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.Alfred North Whitehead
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain.... But there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature. The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger the lowly man, homeless and self-forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
Alfred North Whitehead
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