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“Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress”
Charles Darwin
“One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. . . . The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.”
William Orville Douglas
“As far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him how.”
Edmund Hillary
“Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come”
Chinese Proverbs
“Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed”
Channing Pollock
“It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”
Kwame Nkrumah
“Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.”
Donald Trump
“And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.”
Bible
“It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.”
Alice Paul
“That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I believe it is more through the fact that Hitler's excesses made racism poisonous to any humane individual than through our own virtue. That we have much farther to go is incontestable.”
Isaac Asimov
