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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Anne Sullivan Macy

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The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
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Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
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I cannot explain it but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
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