Helen Keller Quotes
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.
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I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.
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We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.
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The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot.
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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Thursday night football should be illegal.
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I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.
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If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!
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Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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I own the restaurant. There are a lot of cooks, waiters and waitresses in this restaurant. They worry about their problems. I worry about all the problems.
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Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.
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An autocrat’s a ruler that does what th’ people wants an’ takes th’ blame f’r it.
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The air is bright with hues of light And rich with laughter and with singing: Young hearts beat high in ecstasy, And banners wave, and bells are ringing: But silence falls with fading day, And there's an end to mirth and play. Ah, well-a-day!
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As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
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There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
