Our puny sentimentalism has caused us to forget that a human life is sacred only when it may be of some use to itself and to the world. - Helen Keller

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Our puny sentimentalism has caused us to forget that a human life is sacred only when it may be of some use to itself and to the world.

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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American writer and social activist; an illness (possibly scarlet fever or meningitis) at the age of 19 months left her deaf and blind.

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"My teacher read me "The Chambered Nautilus" [a nature poem], and showed me that the shell-building process of the mollusks is symbolical of the development of the mind. Just as the wonder-working mantle of the nautilus changes the material it absorbs from the water and makes it a part of itself, so the bits of knowledge one gathers undergo a similar change and become pearls of thought."

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