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A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neg

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s. – Richard Whately

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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors. – Elbert Hubbard

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The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers… of all men to the extent that they know. – Allan Bloom

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Yet the people there may grow old and die without ever visiting one another. – Lao-Tzu

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