"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares."
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"The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love."
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"This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!"
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"Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength."
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"If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively."
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"I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing."
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"All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises."
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"The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing."
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"The most important word in the English language is hope."
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"About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome."
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"You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument."
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"Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money."
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"More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat."
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"Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance."
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"I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable."
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"My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind."
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"There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep."
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"Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change."
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"A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it."
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"When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars."
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