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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The Cold War has ended. It's very simple. We are no longer living in a bipolar world. The chances that we will go to war with Russia are pretty much ended. Mutually Assured Destruction was a doctrine that worked very well for decades as a deterrent, but the world has fundamentally changed.
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Would a good friend, a smart friend, encourage you to do something as dishonorable as not pay a bill you're morally and legally obligated to pay? I don't think so.
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The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time to learn.
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All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses:But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms.Now I’ve left my sweetheart: and they’ve left me,And I roll my eyes, seeking a knife or rope.But Heaven is full of gods: You came to aid me:Greetings, Boredom, mother of the Muse.
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I'm fat! There's nothing else to call it.
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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.
