"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
"Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense cannot give us a full life, nor can knowledge alone. No life is full unless it is linked to some- thing that goes on after we are dead.... If we have nothing more to live for than just to get ahead in a competitive system, then democracy will go down before other philosophies."
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Source: Ralph Washington Sockman (1933). “The Unemployed Carpenter”
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