Helen Keller

"Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream."

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Source: To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller.

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Helen Keller

Helen Keller

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Helen Keller was a pioneering author and activist who overcame deafness and blindness to advocate for education and social justice.

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"Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life."

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