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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
John W. GardnerAbout author
- Author's profession: Educator
- Nationality: american
- Born: October 8, 1912
- Died: February 16, 2002
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It is an observation suggested by all history, and by none more than by that of James I and his successor [Charles I], that the religious spirit, when it mingles with faction, contains in it something supernatural and unaccountable; and that, in its operations upon society, effects correspond less to their known causes than is found in any other circumstance of government.
David Hume