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Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, and lecturer. At 19 months old, she became deaf and blind due to an illness. With the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, Keller learned to communicate using the manual alphabet and later graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904, becoming the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. more Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, and lecturer. At 19 months old, she became deaf and blind due to an illness. With the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, Keller learned to communicate using the manual alphabet and later graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904, becoming the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Keller authored 14 books, including her autobiography "The Story of My Life" (1903), which details her early life and education. She co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1920 and actively campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, and world peace. Keller's accomplishments garnered numerous accolades, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. less

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"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose"
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"The best way to prepare for the future is to live as if there were none"
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"To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable"
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"Be happy with what you have while working for what you want"
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"What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me."
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"We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others."
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"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained."
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"The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves."
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"Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings"
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"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
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"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
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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."
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"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."
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"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."
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"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."
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