"No nation is wise enough to rule another."
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"I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light."
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"The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them."
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"Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach"
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"For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves."
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"A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth."
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"My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true."
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"Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it."
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"I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare."
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"Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere ... they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."
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"Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits."
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"I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about... I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone."
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"It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life."
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"Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation."
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