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The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.
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Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.
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Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us the ultimate way out of it.
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Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things.
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Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.
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Lastly, and possibly most important, forests make this earth comfortable and beautiful. Next to the soil, they are the most useful and helpful of Nature's agencies.
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I am by Nature made for my own good; not for my own evil.
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When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.
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His cheery optimism never failed, even when food was very short and the prospect of relief seemed remote.
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The time for renewed action was coming, and though our situation was grave enough, we were facing the future hopefully.
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At any rate, we were on the move at last, and if dangers and difficulties lay ahead we could meet and overcome them.
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The demons of depression could find no foothold when he was around
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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.
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Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.
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Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
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The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!
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One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.
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Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
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The vision and action must go hand in hand.
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Government is competent when all who compose it work as trustees for the whole people.
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In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms
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The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history.
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit.