"The most powerful moral influence is example."
"The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies."
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Source: Huston Smith (2009). “Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief”, p.1, Harper Collins
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