"If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day."
"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
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Source: Will It Be As Always? by Henryk A. Kowalczyk, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2015.
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