Helen Keller Quotes
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

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It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
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I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
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At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.
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My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
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God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.
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I happened to be in a position in Superior where I could play three sports, and when I came to Minnesota, I had the understanding they would allow me to play three sports. Kids now don't have the same amount of time. You have coaches that think baseball is 10 months a year. Hockey is 11 or 12 months a year.
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Don't agonize, organize.
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I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.
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I'm not looking for anybody or anything. I'm just living my life.
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The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.