From the ArcaMax Publishing, History & Quotes Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/quotes/s-27814-762942
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.