Helen Keller Quotes
I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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I like to play with tropes.
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My mother read me biblical stories at night.
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I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
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Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.
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There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.
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I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
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That men should ‘turn the other cheek,’ should ‘love their enemies,’ should ‘resist not evil,’ has ever seemed fine to teach to children, to preach on Sundays, to round a period in a senseless oratorical flight; but it has been taken for granted that these sentiments cannot furnish the real foundation for strong characters or great states. p. 13
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I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.
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You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.
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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
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For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.
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There should be a path to earned legal status for those that are here. Not - not amnesty - earned legal status, which means you pay a fine and do many things over an extended period of time.
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So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.
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We'd visit an art museum in Houston, or a spectacular shoreline vista in Oregon, or attend a political lecture in Boston. And so I found myself getting a special kind of education just witnessing Bill's grasp of what makes our society tick and how business gets done.
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About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
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A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.
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I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.
