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You are wonderful. I love and honor you.... [ellipsis in source] Lead your own life, attend to your charities, cultivate yourself, travel when...
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You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again—it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve the world and I...
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This will not be disloyalty but will show that as members of a party they are loyal first to the fine things for which the party stands and wh...
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The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' Chris...
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Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that before we can be of value ...
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On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember t...
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I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public o...
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Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
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A society in which everyone works is not necessarily a free society and may indeed be a slave society; on the other hand, a society in which t...
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... all big changes in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.
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We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
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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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A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
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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 useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do
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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give
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Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
By Eleanor Roosevelt