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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."
"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."
"I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man."
"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."
"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal."
"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."
"The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!"
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
"No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears."
"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."
"We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial."
"The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves."
"Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity."
"If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body."
"Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within"
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."
"The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists."
"The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream"
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."