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To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

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
Orator
Peace Activist
Political Activist
Suffragette
Trade Unionist
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Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
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I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
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The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
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Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.
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So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
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Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
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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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If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
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