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Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

~Emily Greene Balch

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Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

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There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

~Emily Greene Balch

Topics: Comparative Cults Desire Even Exotic Experiment Faiths Great Interest Other Our Own Religion Than Understand

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A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

~Emily Greene Balch

Topics: Affected Altered Based Basis Deeply Discoveries Inventions Major Overlook Production Relations Social Social Relations Technological Which Whole

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A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

~Emily Greene Balch

Topics: Around Atomic Common Community Dark Days Destiny Fear Globe Horrible Interests Men Minds Sense Side Terrible Weapons Which

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We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

~Emily Greene Balch

Topics: Act Cause Course Events Influence Least Only Part Speculate Store Study Them Undergo Us

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The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

~Emily Greene Balch

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Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

~Emily Greene Balch

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These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

~Emily Greene Balch

Topics: Also Appear Blow Colonial Colonialism Death Economically Exploited Form Given Hope Imperialism Least Out People Possessions Treated Wars Way Weaker Were Which

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It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.

~Emily Greene Balch

Topics: Analyse Forces Move Natural Own Seek Time Try Understand

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: January 8th, 1867

Died: January 9th, 1961

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