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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.
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I had a penchant myself for doing several things at once. I wanted to draw, write, speak.
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Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.
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I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend.
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Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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It was an ideological war for some-the defenders of democracy versus the rebel strong-arm charismatic leaders. Or the capitalist land-grabbers versus the protectors of the people, take your pick.
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I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.
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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.
