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Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
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I am only one; but still I am one. I may not be able to do everything, but still I can do something.
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

My Religion, 1927

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Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
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We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
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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.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
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