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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Love alone could waken love.

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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

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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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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

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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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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

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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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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

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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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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

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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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All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

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Hunger makes a thief of any man.

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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

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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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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

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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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Love dies only when growth stops.

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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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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

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