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Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

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The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

#confederacy #dangers #disregarded #general #government

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

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Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age. ↗

— Frank Pittman

#adapt #age #each #explore #faith

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

#because #convincing #die #does #eventually

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#discoveries #generation #great #mathematical #never

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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