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We have been living through an epoch in which wars, tyrannies and privations seem to have reached their peak...

— Vera Stanley Alder

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Whatever possibilities and potentialities are latent today, the fact remains that the last word and the final decision will rest with us — the people.

Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)

There will be tremendous difficulties to surmount whilst trying to arrive at the coming stages...

Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)

This chasm has to be crossed by the human mind to-day.

Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)

At the present time the issue is the self-interest of several immense nation-groups... Economical chaos and frustration is the result, on a world scale.

We can get on top of the world in most circumstances if we know and practice correct breathing... correct breathing feeds our minds as well as our bodies.

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