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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

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
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Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
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Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.
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The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
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There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.
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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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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
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I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.
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I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.
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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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I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.
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I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
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To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
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The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.
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What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?
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Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
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Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
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No nation is wise enough to rule another.
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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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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While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
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