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The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

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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Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.
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Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
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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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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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The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way
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While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
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Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.
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One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.
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Rebuffed, but always persevering self-reproached, but ever regaining faith undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
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Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
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Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.
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Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
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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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Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
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Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything it is he who gets the most out of life.
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I have found life so beautiful.
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Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
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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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The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.
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Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land.
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