Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but … - Emily Greene Balch

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Everybody in the states is so relaxed, and everybody in Japan is so uptight.

Emily Greene Balch

Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.

Depths, Night, Real, Sunshine, Terrifying

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The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

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We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are asked to be patient with necessarily slow and groping advance on the road forward, and to be ready for each step ahead as it become practicable. We are asked to equip ourselves with courage, hope, readiness for hard work, and to cherish large and generous ideals.

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As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.

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