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All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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The Chinese novel was written primarily to amuse the common people. And when I say amuse I do not mean only to make them laugh, though laughter is also one of the aims of the Chinese novel. I mean amusement in the sense of absorbing and occupying the whole attention of the mind. I mean enlightening that mind by pictures of life and what that life means.
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Story belongs to the people. They are sounder judges of it than anyone else, for their senses are unspoiled and their emotions are free.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
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Love alone could waken love.
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
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