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“As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.”

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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

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experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.

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To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a…

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I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a…

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When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next…

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The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've…

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“One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child’s why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you do not know the answer, and you often will not, then take the child with you to a source to find the answer. This may be a dictionary or encyclopedia which he is too young to use himself,…

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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the…

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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose…

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We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind,…

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