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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller
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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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I could never stay long enough on the shore the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.
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Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.
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I will eat grandfather for dinner.
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Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
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I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.
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The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
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There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.
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If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.
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The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
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When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.
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I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.
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Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
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If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
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Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
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Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love of service. Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulty.
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