Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

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T. S. Eliot

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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Carl Gustav Jung

An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

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Lord William Beveridge

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

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Robert F. Kennedy

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

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Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

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Albert Einstein

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

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