Words are the mind's wings, are they not? - Helen Keller

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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

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About Helen Keller

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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Birth Name: Helen Adams Keller

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فالمرء حين يقرأ على عجلة وفى حالة من العصبية والارتباك دون ان يفكر فى شئ غير الاختبارات والامتحانات التحريرية , يصبح ذهنة مثقلا بقدر ضخم من المعلومات التى لاتبدو أكثر من مجرد حشو لاطائل من ورائه ولا فائدة

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

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