Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

About Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

—Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved—loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of our selves.

—Victor Hugo

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

—Victor Hugo

To love another person is to see the face of God.

—Victor Hugo

To love is to act.

—Victor Hugo

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I'm of the mind that even people who have limitations, if they have a curiosity, they will find a way to explore it.

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We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

—T. S. Eliot

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In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

—Susanne Langer

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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

—Helen Keller

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The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

—Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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