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Ideas without action are useless.

Helen Keller

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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Linguist
Orator
Peace Activist
Political Activist
Suffragette
Trade Unionist
Writer
Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
Ideas
Without
Useless
Action

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A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.
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Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
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To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
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The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.
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When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.
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I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
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If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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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 best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
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I have found life so beautiful.
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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
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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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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
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