"For [Benjamin] Franklin and his like-minded contemporaries,
	scientific pursuit was the ultimate act of faith; faith that
	there was an order to be discovered and faith in our ability
	to discover it."

	"Man is born broken.  He lives by mending.  The grace of God is glue."

	"Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past."

	"Hope is contagious.  Hope is like yeast and baking powder.
	It has an energy that makes things rise.  If you want to know
	if you are good for others, ask yourself how much hope you've
	given them.  It is there you will find your answer."

	"One of the real tests of journalistic integrity is being fair
	to someone who might be best described by a four-letter word." 

	"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare.
	It is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

	“A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity,
	but rather by touching both at once.” 

	"Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here
	at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving--not on
	listening.  So I would still say deaf people can do anything,
	except hear."  

	Faith "was intended precisely for the simple, but "the quest
	for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads
	to fanaticism and narrow-mindedness. When reason as such
	becomes suspect, then faith itself becomes falsified." 

	"Five principles of ethical leadership: breaking out of one's
	comfort zone, working well with others, appreciating ambiguity
	in life's decisions and issues, living with integrity, and
	building balance in one's life."

	"I hope you come to find that which gives life a deep meaning for
	you.  Something worth living for--maybe even worth dying for--
	something that energizes you, enthuses you, enables you to keep
	moving ahead."
	

	"Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability.  It
	could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world.  We're
	all sinners, everyone of us, and a radical change is needed for
	all of us."

	"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one
	persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
	depends on the unreasonable man." 

	"Those who think they can and those who think they can't
	are both right."

	"Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object
	to something because it is immoral and more likely to object to
	something because it is unhealthy or unsafe. So smoking is now
	a worse evil than six of the Ten Commandments, and the word "sinful"
	is most commonly associated with chocolate."  

	"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth
	and power, but for the passionate sense of what can be, for the
	eyes, which, ever young and ardent, see the possible." 

	"The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat
	hanging unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it;
	the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no
	shoes; the money you put in the bank belongs to the poor.  You
	do wrong to everyone you could help but fail to help."  

	"Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep.  They
	manage it because little by little, we make them that.  We overlook
	too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end."  

	"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in God, God has
	to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race
	so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for God
	than it is for us?"  

	"It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work
	to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a
	change of soul, than to kill them."  

	"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance
	of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those
	who have too little."

	"What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould
	in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element
	which is life itself--life hurrying past us and running away,
	too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?"   

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