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Helen

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1. Helen - Noun

2. Helen - Proper noun

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(Greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris; the Greek army sailed to Troy to get her back which resulted in the Trojan War

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. Erma Bombeck

Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president. Ann Coulter

He wrote Helen that "a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you." John Irving

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

She Helen brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction. Aeschylus

I was a thoroughly hardened Homeward Bounder. There seemed nothing I didn't know. Then I ran into Helen. My friendly neighbourhood enemy. There really was nothing like Helen on any world I'd ever been to. I sometimes didn't think she was human at all. Diana Wynne Jones

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