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Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
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So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!
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Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach
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If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.
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I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
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You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
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I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.
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The way forward is simple - just follow Christ!
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When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
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No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.