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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

— Johan Huizinga In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936)

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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

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The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

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Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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