Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevel
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education.
They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think....
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
-- Anne Sulliva...
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened!
The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!...
Keep on beginning and failing.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
-- Anne Sulliva...
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry Jame
She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry Jame
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- He...
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it....

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