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Think back through all the eras of history—the major ones, the tiny obscure ones known only to scholars. Can you think of a man, ever, who was capable of fashioning the future development of mankind to suit his own idea of it—no matter how noble that ideal may have been? Wouldn't that be just another form of opinion control—no matter how splendid the conception?
Kennedy did not turn around.
It takes a great deal of faith in mankind to keep from directing it the way we think it should go, he said at last.
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There had been many times when man had been forced to adopt the only right opinion. Each time man's forward thrust had slackened, vegetated, and died. Once, through the dark ages, the period had lasted almost a thousand years.
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A human being is seldom bothered with insufficient data; often the less he has the more willing he is to give a firm opinion; and man prefers some answer, even a wrong one, to the requirement that he dig deeper and find out the facts.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
Mark Clifton
Born:
1906
Died:
1963
(aged 57)
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