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"In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed."
"A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life."
"The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done."
"True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery."
"Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love."
"Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world."
"They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole."
"Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world."
"I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system."
"A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree."
"So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."
"The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure."
"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."
"Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life."
"Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them."
"Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low."
"I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world."
"What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!"
"It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me."
"Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation."