Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.

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Helen Keller. (2023, November 1). Wikiquote. Retrieved January 12, 2024 from https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Helen_Keller&oldid=3392007.

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible. Paul Dirac on poetry

Helen Keller (Wikipedia) Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Keller language, including reading and writing. After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, Keller attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.