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The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing. ”
The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change. ”
One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order. ”
What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility. ”
People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies. ”
People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies. ”
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities. ”
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual. ”
Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace. ”
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. ”