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The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

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Jane Addams
Age: 74 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 6
Died: 1935
Died: June 21
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?
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The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.
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In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.
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If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
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It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.
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Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
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You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
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Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.
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The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.
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We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.
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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
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The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.
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Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
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It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
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A wise man has told us that men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in.
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What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?
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