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I am a perfect example of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps: My mom raised six kids by herself.


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HELEN KELLER Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other&#...
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BILL KELLER We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the ...
HELEN KELLER Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -...
HELEN KELLER As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounde...
HELEN KELLER Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from t...
HELEN KELLER We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
HELEN KELLER So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
HELEN KELLER The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the he...
HELEN KELLER The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt w...
HELEN KELLER It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go for...
HELEN KELLER