Helen Keller Quotes
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
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Historically, aggression unanswered has led to more aggression.
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Like it or not, we are all liars. Thank goodness. Imagine going through life where everyone is completely honest: 'Those shoes... look like something out of an early Cyndi Lauper video.' 'Your daughter... looks like the spawn of Honey Boo Boo and Elmer Fudd.'
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We are all the aggregate of the ideas about us, including our own ideas about us. That is all that any of us can be considered as – units of information in a sea of information. When you get to a certain point, there is not much more to it than information.
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
