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I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.
Helen Keller
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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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Helen Adams Keller
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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
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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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The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
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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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When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
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I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.
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If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!
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I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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I hung about the dangerous frontier of guess, avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
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I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.
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Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.
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We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.
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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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I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.
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Life is an adventure or nothing
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The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.
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