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1. "People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved." ~ Anne Sullivan
2. "The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need." ~ Anne Sullivan
3. "Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember." ~ Anne Sullivan
4. "My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!" ~ Anne Sullivan
5. "Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction." ~ Anne Sullivan
6. "I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think." ~ Anne Sullivan
7. "We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains." ~ Anne Sullivan
8. "It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things." ~ Anne Sullivan
9. "Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy." ~ Anne Sullivan
10. "Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free." ~ Anne Sullivan
11. "Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another." ~ Anne Sullivan
12. "The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments." ~ Anne Sullivan
13. "We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion." ~ Anne Sullivan
14. "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." ~ Anne Sullivan
15. "We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about." ~ Anne Sullivan
16. "The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice." ~ Anne Sullivan
17. "Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark." ~ Anne Sullivan
18. "We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful." ~ Anne Sullivan
19. "A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives." ~ Anne Sullivan
20. "I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them." ~ Anne Sullivan
21. "I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief." ~ Anne Sullivan
22. "It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine." ~ Anne Sullivan
23. "The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again." ~ Anne Sullivan

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He sees her looking at him with interest, and is encouraged to go on. 'I wouldn't be here with you now. This wouldn't be real - something else would. You'd have been another you, instead of the one you are now. You can't be tied down to a predestined fate when you change according to your situation, and your fate must change too. Everything depends on circumstances - on which "you" you happen to be at a given time..."
Author: Anna Kavan

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