“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”

— Helen Keller, Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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1880 – 1968

American author and activist, deaf and blind from infancy, author of "The Story of My Life".

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