Helen Keller Quotes
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.
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When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
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My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
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Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
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I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.
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Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'
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Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.
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The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
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There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
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If human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
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I like silence.
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A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
