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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about nation, failure

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

Quote by Aeschylus about philosophy

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, danger, nation, peace, war, people

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Quote by Paracelsus about real estate, things, time

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there...

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about opinion

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable...

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Quote by Herbert George Wells about nature

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in...

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Quote by Thomas Moore about plot, destruction

It was a mysterious dream It was from way-out of gentle...

It was a mysterious dream It was from way-out of gentle And it was too beautiful That had to perish. The love has gone

Quote by Mihai Eminescu about love, dream

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