Helen Keller Quotes
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Quotes to Explore
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
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I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.
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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?
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'We should let love be uppermost in our hearts because all our doings without love are nothing.'
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Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
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I just don't like talking about my relationships or anything like that, in any reference.
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I worked for a temp agency called Manpower.
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I do not say anything from jealousy.
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If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.
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A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
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All things as subsist from nature appear to contain in themselves a principle of motion and permanency; some according to place, others according to increase and diminuation; and others according to change in quality.
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
