"What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?"
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"Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?"
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"Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God."
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"...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding."
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"Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things."
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"The inferiority of women is man-made."
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"How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together."
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"It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind."
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"Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love."
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"There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible."
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"I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility."
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"When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use."
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"Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free."
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"All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us"
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"I feel the flame of eternity in my soul."
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"This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil."
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"We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create."
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"When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened."
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"The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them."
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"The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision."
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