A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age … - Earl Warren

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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution. . . even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.

Earl Warren

A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

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