"The most powerful moral influence is example."
"When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy, but as the time when the peoples of the world first came to take one another seriously."
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Source: Huston Smith (2009). “The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction”, p.19, Harper Collins
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