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Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a
matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are
moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.
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We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers,
profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and
militarism are incapable of being conquered.
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
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Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all
aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has
to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior
of the whole.
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Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your
fellow humans everywhere in the world.
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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
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For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most
certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
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On Humanism
Originally published in 1930
Language updated in 1994
Old: God created the world and humanity.
New: The world and humanity evolved.
Old: Hell is a place of eternal torment for the wicked.
New: Suffering is the natural result of breaking the laws of right living.
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When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
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