Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner."

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back ...
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The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific o...
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I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my fathe...
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Actors are one family over the entire world.
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I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside...
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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the ne...
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they d...
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing t...
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel ho...
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmar...
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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
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It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. An...
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clea...
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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone els...
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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert...
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the gr...
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on l...
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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
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What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be o...
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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That d...
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe ...
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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point o...
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Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so ...
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eager...
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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of...
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. O...
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
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I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content t...
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Understanding is a two-way street.
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Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
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Do one thing every day that scares you.
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say
yes.
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Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
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Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...
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A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best yo...
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Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
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Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, t...
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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, exci...
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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l...
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generousl...
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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
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A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
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No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be be...
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Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! W...
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It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness!
Eleanore Roosevelt
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Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us ...
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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...
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To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unendin...
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other...
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your h...
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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater d...
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
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I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
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Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real de...
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most usefu...
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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and wo...
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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you...
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Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
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A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even whe...
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The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping ...
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...
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It is better to light 1 candle than to curse the darkness.
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and th...
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I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the w...
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Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there
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Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean somet...
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Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
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So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
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It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, b...
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all...
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena...
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do
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Whatever come we have to meet it.
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A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be on...
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and...
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is...
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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The giving of love is an education in itself.
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most u...
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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...
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Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something...
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge...
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Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so c...
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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi...
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damne...
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o...
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There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ...
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You cant live long enough to make them all yourself.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
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If someone betrays you once, its their fault; if they betray you twice, its your fault.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if yo...
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A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
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Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are t...
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There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself
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I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no head...
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When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other perso...
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Show me someone who doesn't dream about the future and I'll show you someone who doesn't know where ...
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No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it....
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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater ...
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An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peac...
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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always...
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I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for th...
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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters ...
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of ensla...
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At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, a...
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One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments ...
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My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in t...
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Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention t...
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To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel th...
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One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
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This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
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It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
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I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
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I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as muc...
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A milestone passed, new things begun, dreams as shining as the sun, a goal achieved, a victory won! ...
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art
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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest ...
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It is neither unusual nor new for me to have Negro friends, nor is it unusual for me to have found m...
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Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you sto...
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Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else ...
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
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Do one thing everyday that scares you.
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For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the sl...
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The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat
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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, an...
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I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor...
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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals...
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Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confi...
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When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that peop...
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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn...
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I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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«Vous devez faire les choses que vous vous croyez incapable de faire.»
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt.
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So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

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