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- Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
- Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
- I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon…
- Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul…
- The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the…
- Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike…
- The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it,…
- I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper.…
- What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all…
- The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am…
- I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize…
- The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of…
- Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
- Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the…
- 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…
- When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that…
- If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.
- Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul…
- When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?
- If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must…
- A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea
- What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
- When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me,…
- THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me
- Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle