"I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of……" — Helen Keller
"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 this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism."
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370 Quotes by Helen Keller
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I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of…
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A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
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Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
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Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!
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Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
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Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love…
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
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If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about,…
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As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
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There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so…
— H. L. Mencken
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Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their…
— Robert Grudin
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The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.
— Horace Kephart
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For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new…
— Frantz Fanon
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A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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— D. C. Fontana
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The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.
— Unknown Author
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Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened…
— Dallas Willard
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I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage…
— Johannes Itten
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