Helen Keller Quotes
Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
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I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.
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Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. They end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.
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There was a weird moment where-I was still a drummer, I always saw myself as a drummer-and we got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking 'Wow, I really need to take singing more seriously!'
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Some men like Jack and some like JillI'm glad I like them both but stillI wonder if this freewheelingReally is an enlightened thing,Or is its greater scope a signOf deviance from some party line?In the strict ranks of Gay and StraightWhat is my status: Stray? Or Great?
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I wonder where that bat is now? Maybe he's sitting in Bat Heaven somewhere, with his own bat roadies...
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The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.
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I learned early on the magic of life is having a vision, having faith, and then going for it.
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You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right.
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Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.
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When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.
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How can you live without knowing what your spirit is doing and what your spirit is saying to you?
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.
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Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.
