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 The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called 
the savior of society by the next.  
 The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called 
the savior of society by the next. 
American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task read more
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that read more
Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is read more
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
Progress cannot be organized.
Progress cannot be organized.
 A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your 
neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.  
 A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your 
neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife. 
 Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten 
thousand.  
 Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten 
thousand.