"The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision."
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"The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain."
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"I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present."
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"People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done."
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"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?"
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"God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work."
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"The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced."
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"To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted."
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"We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes.""
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"I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same."
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"When one door of hapiness closes, another opens."
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"Your success & happiness lies in you."
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"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
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"If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone."
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"If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose."
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"I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears."
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"When one doors closes, another door opens."
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"What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?"
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"Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it."
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"We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America."
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