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What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Helen Keller

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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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Autobiographer
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Peace Activist
Political Activist
Suffragette
Trade Unionist
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Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
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The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'
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Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
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I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.
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The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.
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So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
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Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
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Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.
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Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
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I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
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All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us
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This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.
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I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.
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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
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What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
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The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
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