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Optimum realization aims at a harmonious synthesis of effectiveness and justice in the furthest possible surveyable part of future time.

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Once he (man) became conscious of creating images of the future, he became a participant in the process of creating this future.

Social change will be viewed as a push-pull process in which a Society is at once pulled forward by its own magnetic images of an idealized future and pushed from behind by its realized past.

The brain attempts to recognize this odor image by scanning and resolving it into previously stored patterns

Awareness of ideal values is the first step in the conscious creation of images of the future... for a value is by definition that which guides a 'valued' future.

My own philosophical position, if I may put it that way, is very briefly as follows

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If the church ... does not make God's liberation of the oppressed central in its mission and proclamation, how can it rest easy with a condemned criminal as the dominant symbol of its message?

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It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.

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It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

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