"I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults, who, at best, know only a fraction of what they say. The reason is simply that children know everything with their whole beings, while we know it only with our heads."

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Source : Jacques Lusseyran (2014). “And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II”, p.7, New World Library

Jacques Lusseyran

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“Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present.”
“All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.”

Source : Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1944). “Facts and Visions: Twenty-four Baccalaureate Sermons”
“I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.”
“He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.”
“Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.”
“You earn the right to expect recognition by giving it! It's that simple”
“I have never actually watched 'Glee.' I have heard it is just fantastic.”
“The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.”

Source : "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark R, p. 245, 1732.

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