Somehow the despondency thus treated becomes pregnant with an access to new vitality. The organism needs to lie dormant whilst its latent energies are gathering strength for activity on a fresh plane. It is important, moreover, to observe that, so long as there is growth, the fresh plane is likewise a higher plane.

Robert Ranulph Marett

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The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.

Edward R. Murrow — attributed remark, collected in Murrow: His Life and Times

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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Jacob Bronowski — The Common Sense of Science

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