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more people. It is the priceless ingredient for
a
better day."
Louis Pasteur had this profound
observation:
"I hold the unconquerable belief
that science and peace will triumph over
ignorance and war, that nations will come
together not to destroy but to construct, and
that the future belongs to those who
accomplish most for humanity."
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale observes this
about human history:
It is
a
magnificent pageant of
success and failures. And we have
always learned from the past the things
necessary for going forward into the
future. The first step on the moon was
a
dramatic achievement. But so was
the discovery that man could grow
plants to feed himself, or weave cloth to
clothe himself. So it doesn't hurt to look
back on the long history ofmankind and
the wonders that have been achieved.
Look back on courage, onself-reliance,
on endurance, on fortitude, all the
heritage that the past has given us.
This is the way to find
a
true evaluation
toward
a
glorious future.
Benjamin Franklin's advice is as useful
today as it was two hundred years ago.
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