Great Throughts Treasury

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson

If the pursuit of peace is both old and new, it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated, for it has to do with people, and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.

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Man | Nothing | Peace | People | Universe | Old |

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Adam Smith

The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniences and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary.

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Capacity | Desire | Man |

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Aesop NULL

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

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Blessings | Desire | Present | Loss |

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow whatever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

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Knowledge | Mind | Search | Value |

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