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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
Essayist
Linguist
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Peace Activist
Political Activist
Suffragette
Trade Unionist
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Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
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There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
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No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
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While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
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health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
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Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
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Be heroes in an army of construction.
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God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.
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The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.
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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
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I have found life so beautiful.
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Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.
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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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The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
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To get Congress to do anything.
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The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
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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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Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
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