"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."
"There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own."
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Source: David Starr Jordan (1929). “The Trend of the American University”, p.71, Stanford University Press
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