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The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, the real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, the real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.
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