These towns are trying to preserve their small-town character.


Eleanor Kinney

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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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 ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. O...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
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