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Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.

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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
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When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?
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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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Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows
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Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
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health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
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I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
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No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
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A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
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I am only one, But still I am one.
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Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
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While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
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The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
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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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