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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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It Is Better To Light A Candle

Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. darkness is in reality the absence of light. light we can study, but not darkness. in fact we can use newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. you cannot measure darkness. a simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. how can you know how dark a certain space is? you measure the amount of light present. isn't this correct? darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.
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One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. puzzled by the nature of the light, they sent one of their members to go and check on it. the scouting moth circled the candle several times and came back with a description: the light was bright. then a second moth went to examine it. he, too, came back with an observation: the light was hot. finally a third moth volunteered to go. when he approached the candle he didn't stop like his friends had done, but flew straight into the flame. he was consumed there and then, and only he understood the nature of the light.
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Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. it is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. a column and a column brings light between them. to make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.
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But i think the american people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. the times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. we are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. as winston churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.
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In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.
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We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.
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