A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

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Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

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Hunger makes a thief of any man.

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I am mentally bifocal.

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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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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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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.