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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And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one - a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly. We can look after our seniors. We can offer better futures for our children. We can do our part to save the world's environment. We can restore our good name in the world.
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
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When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.
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I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families - our ancestors - are our identities. Biology is destiny.
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There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
