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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Education, then, is the safest and richest investment possible to man.

Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.

If we would be great, and good, and useful, we must pay the price. And remember that when we get down to the fundamental principles of truth, nature draws no colour line.

Our ability to make the world better depends entirely upon our ability to use every opportunity to make ourselves better.

The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism. A vague glimpse even of an Analytical Engine at length opened out, and I pursued with enthusiasm the shadowy vision.

The basic condition of human life is union; the organic social relation, the interchange of functional service, wherein the individual is most advantaged, not by his own exertions for his own goods, but by the exchange of his exertions with the exertions of others for goods produced by them together.

The inevitable trend of human life is toward higher civilization.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature: to make beautiful things has more.

The more you are and the more you do, the richer your life, the greater your joy.

Your life will never be a straight path.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.

If an idea, I reasoned, were really a valuable one, there must be some way of realising it.

It has always seemed to me, during many years of active private practice, that the first and constant aim of the family physician should be to diffuse the sanitary knowledge which would enable parents to bring up healthy children.

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us the ultimate way out of it.

Lastly, and possibly most important, forests make this earth comfortable and beautiful. Next to the soil, they are the most useful and helpful of Nature's agencies.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

The time for renewed action was coming, and though our situation was grave enough, we were facing the future hopefully.

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.

The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.

Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit.