Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Helen Keller Quotes Click here for Helen Keller books "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." "The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction." "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." "I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace." "Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats." "Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas." "Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Could they win some visible goal which they have set on the horizon, how happy they could be!" "To know the history of philosophy is to know that the highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists." "Tolerance is the first principal of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think." "We have found that our great philosophers and our great men of action are optimists." "A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships." "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." "It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good." "Strike against war, for without you no battles can be
fought!"
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