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Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities—brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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Born:
October 8, 1912
Died:
February 16, 2002
(aged 89)
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