Helen Keller Quotes
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
 
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	I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.   
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	Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.   
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	We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.   
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	The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.   
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	An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.   
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	I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.   
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	I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.   
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	Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.   
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	Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.   
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	If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.   
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	I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.   
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	The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.   
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	I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.   
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	I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.   
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	My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.   
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	Evolution is more grounded in my experience than angels.   
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	In order to obtain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should have to lower my eyes a little. But I lower my eyes no more. In a word, I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill.   
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	Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.   
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	I'll be home for Christmas. You can count on me.   
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	Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.   
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	I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.   
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	Kindness and humbleness are really good qualities to possess. But, if you have to use the word humble, it means you're not humble. And if you're not humble to this world, this world will thrust humbleness upon you.   
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	The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.   
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	Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					