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Ignorance is a menace to peace.
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Ignorance
Menace
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Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
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Empires
Gates
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Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
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Segregation
Trouble
Anyone
Never
Brought
Except
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One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.
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Possession
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The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
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Weakness
Nation
Eventually
Proves
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Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.
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Expansion
Obstacles
Presented
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If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
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England
Militant
New England
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Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.
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Nations
Individuals
Informed
Owe
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Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
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Mom
Sympathy
Chords
Motherhood
Touched
Tender
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The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.
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War
Way
Wilderness
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Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
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Power
Bless
Curse
Personality
Depress
Uplift
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In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
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Ignorance
Aggressor
Between
Generally
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Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
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History
Fall
Permanent
Superiority
Rise
After
Nation
Realized
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The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.
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Supreme
Above
Eclipsed
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The foundation upon which Rotary is built is friendship; on no less firm foundation could it have stood.
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Firm
Foundation
Rotary
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But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
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Imaginary
Enemies
Priestly
Subject
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In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
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Civilization
Cold
Daybreak
Dominating
Emotion
Twilight
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Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.
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Leader
Shoulders
Meeting
Rests
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The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.
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Views
Willing
Any
Less
He
Employ
Enforce
His
Measures
Thinks
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To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
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Exercise
Force
Ignorance
Views
Attempt
Frequently
Seldom
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The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
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All Things
Average
Critical
Disposition
Equal
Higher
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There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.
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Application
Tolerance
Today Political People
Precious
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One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.
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Entitled
Honorable
Nations
All Nations
Choosing
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It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
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Brilliant
Critics
Prejudice
Rotary
American Writers
Charge
Writers
Fair
Include
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If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.
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Bitterness
Destined
International
Warfare
Extreme
Civil
Worse
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It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.
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Agreement
Disagreement
Focus
Members
Rotary
Been
Matters
Rather
Which
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Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs.
Paul P. Harris / Attorney
Clubs
Given
Including
Please
Privilege
Rotary
Singing
Full
Countries
Programs
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It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.
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Dogmatic
England
New England
Settlers
Naturally
Conceive
Difficult People New
In Fact
Shores
Tolerant
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How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.
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Human Relationships
Strange
Relationships
Sanction
The Most Important
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The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.
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Consequence
Lawlessness
Mixing
Phenomenon
Remarkable
Frontier
Indiscriminate
Substances
Volatile
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In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
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Agony
Powerful
Time Good Religion
Course
Fears
Invoking
Rites
Spirits
Tempered
Thus
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While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.
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Bloodshed
Elsewhere
England
Large Scale
Liberty
New England
Religious Liberty
Struggle
Political Liberty
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Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.
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Ancestry
Concerned
Cradle
Descendants
England
Glad
Liberty
New England
Pioneers
Religious
Religious Liberty
Deed
Proclaim
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When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.
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Bottom
Clique
Ignorance
Objects
Despises
Hates
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