People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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So long as I confine my activities to social services and the blind, the newspapers compliment me extravagantly, calling me an 'arch-priest of the sightless' and 'wonder woman'. But when I discuss poverty and the industrial system under which we live that is a different matter.Helen Keller
We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good
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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end.
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Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind will transcend.
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