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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.”

— Helen Keller

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Wikiquote: Helen Keller
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Context

Quoted in, The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915, (1996), Martin S. Pernick, Oxford University Press, New York, NY., Part I: Withholding Treatment, ch. 4, Eliminating the Unfit: Euthanasia and Eugenics, p. 92, citing New Yor

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Keller, Helen. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Helen Keller. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

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