Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

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• Anne Sullivan:

  We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

• Anne Sullivan:

  It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; thi

• Anne Sullivan:

  The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

• Anne Sullivan:

  We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a

• Anne Sullivan:

  We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglec

• Anne Sullivan:

  Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

• Anne Sullivan:

  Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, fut

• Anne Sullivan:

  I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

• Anne Sullivan:

  We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately t

• Anne Sullivan:

  The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's exper