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All Human Beings Have Failings, All Human Beings Have Needs And Temptations And Stresses. Men And Women Who Live Together Through Long Years Get To Know One Another's Failings; But They Also Come To Know What Is Worthy Of Respect And Admiration In Those They Live With And In Themselves. If At The End One Can Say, This Man Used To The Limit The Powers That God Granted Him; He Was Worthy Of Love And Respect And Of The Sacrifices Of Many People, Made In Order That He Might Achieve What He Deemed To Be His Task, Then That Life Has Been Lived Well And There Are No Regrets.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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All Human Beings Have Failings, All Human Beings Have Needs And Temptations And Stresses. Men And Women Who Live Together Through Long Years Get To Know One Another's Failings; But They Also Come To Know What Is Worthy Of Respect And Admiration In Those They Live With And In Themselves. If At The End One Can Say, This Man Used To The Limit The Powers That God Granted Him; He Was Worthy Of Love And Respect And Of The Sacrifices Of Many People, Made In Order That He Might Achieve What He Deemed To Be His Task, Then That Life Has Been Lived Well And There Are No Regrets.

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The Constant Pressure To Bring About Conformity Is A Dangerous Thing.

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Anyone Who Has Gone Through Great Suffering Is Bound To Have A Greater Sympathy And Understanding Of The Problems Of Mankind.

...so Much Attention Is Paid To The Aggressive Sins, Such As Violence And Cruelty, And Greed With All Their Tragic Effects, That Too Little Attention Is Paid To The Passive Sins, Such As Apathy And Laziness, Which In The Long Run Can Have A More Devastating And Destructive Effect Upon Society Than The Others.

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Change Means The Unknown.

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People Can Only Make You Inferior With Your Consent.

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Women Are Like Tea Bags: Put Them In Hot Water And They Get Stronger.

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So, After All, We Are But Puppets, Creatures Of Our Fate, Not Commanding It But Being Molded By It.

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This Is Not A Time When Women Should Be Patient. We Are In A War And We Need To Fight It With All Our Ability And Every Weapon Possible. Women Pilots, In This Particular Case, Are A Weapon Waiting To Be Used.

Do Not Be Afraid Of Mistakes, Provided You Do Not Make The Same One Twice.

Only A Man's Character Is The Real Criterion Of Worth.

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If Someone Betrays You Once, It’s Their Fault; If They Betray You Twice, It’s Your Fault.

A Stumbling Block To The Pessimist Is A Stepping-stone To The Optimist.

When You Are Genuinely Interested In One Thing, It Will Always Lead To Something Else.

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Do One Thing Everyday That Scares You. Those Small Things That Make Us Uncomfortable Help Us Build Courage To Do The Work We Do.

We Have Reached A Point Today Where Labor-saving Devices Are Good Only When They Do Not Throw The Worker Out Of His Job.

I Kept Praying That I Might Be Able To Prevent A Repetition Of This Stupidity Called War. I Have Tried To Keep The Promise I Made To Myself, But The Progress That The World Is Making Toward Peace Seems Like The Crawling Of A Little Child, Very Halting And Slow.

One Should Always Sleep In All Of One's Guest Beds, To Make Sure That They Are Comfortable.

It Is Our Freedom To Progress That Makes Us All Want To Live And To Go On.

When You Adopt The Standards And The Values Of Someone Else … You Surrender Your Own Integrity. You Become, To The Extent Of Your Surrender, Less Of A Human Being.

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It Is A Curious Thing In Human Experience, But To Live Through A Period Of Stress And Sorrow With Another Person, Creates A Bond Which Nothing Seems Able To Break.

We Need Not Fear Any Isms If Our Democracy Is Achieving The Ends For Which It Was Established.

A Good Leader Inspires People To Have Confidence In The Leader, A Great Leader Inspires People To Have Confidence In Themselves.

Education Is The Cornerstone Of Liberty.

At Any Age It Does Us No Harm To Look Over Our Past Shortcomings And Plan To Improve Our Characters And Actions In The Coming Year.

Nothing We Learn In This World Is Ever Wasted.

Be Flexible, But Stick To Your Principles.

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To Some Of Us, Hunger Was More Academic Than Real, But We Must Try To Develop The Ability To Feel The Urgency Of Such A Situation.

When You Have Decided What You Believe, What You Feel Must Be Done, Have The Courage To Stand Alone And Be Counted

Usefulness, Whatever Form It May Take, Is The Price We Should Pay For The Air We Breathe And The Food We Eat And The Privilege Of Being Alive.

The Destiny Of Human Rights Is In The Hands Of All Our Citizens In All Our Communities.

The Trouble Is That Not Enough People Have Come Together With The Firm Determination To Live The Things Which They Say They Believe.

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Human Resources Are The Most Valuable Assets The World Has. They Are All Needed Desperately.

I Do Not Want Church Groups Controlling The Schools Of Our Country. They Must Remain Free.

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It Takes As Much Energy To Wish As It Does To Plan.

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I Am Who I Am Today Because Of The Choices I Made Yesterday.

We Must Want For Others, Not Ourselves Alone.

We All Grow Older And We All Have To Live With Ourselves.

Everyone Has The Right To Rest And Leisure, Including Reasonable Limitation Of Working Hours And Periodic Holidays With Pay.

Philosophy Is Not Best Expressed In Words; It Is Expressed In The Choices One Makes.

We Don't Become Heroes Overnight." - One Step At A Time, Eventually Discovering We Have The Strength To Stare It Down.

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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.

Choose A Challenge Instead Of Competence

There Is Nothing To Fear Except Fear It's Self.

Ambition Is Pitiless. Any Merit That It Cannot Use It Finds Despicable.

The Word Liberal Comes From The Word Free. We Must Cherish And Honor The Word Free Or It Will Cease To Apply To Us.

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You Get Strength And Courage, When You Stop To Look Fear In The Face.

Every Age Is An Unknown Country.

The War For Freedom Will Never Really Be Won Because The Price Of Freedom Is Constant Vigilance Over Ourselves And Over Our Government.

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No Human Being Can Ever "own" Another, Whether In Friendship, Love, Marriage Or Parenthood. Many Human Relationships Have Been Ruined And Happiness Far Too Often Changed To Misery By A Failure To Understand This.

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Furnish An Example, Stop Preaching, Stop Shielding, Don't Prevent Self-reliance And Initiative, Allow Your Children To Develop Along Thier Own Lines.

Everyone Has The Right To Work, To Free Choice Of Employment, To Just And Favorable Conditions Of Work And To Protection Against Unemployment.

Will People Ever Be Wise Enough To Refuse To Follow Bad Leaders Or To Take Away The Freedom Of Other People?

No Human Being Can Ever 'own' Another, Whether In Friendship, Love, Marriage, Or Parenthood.

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Pit Race Against Race, Religion Against Religion, Prejudice Against Prejudice. Divide And Conquer! We Must Not Let That Happen Here.

I Could Never Say In The Morning, "i Have A Headache And Cannot Do Thus And So". Headache Or No Headache, Thus And So Had To Be Done.

One Has To Live In Washington To Know What A City Of Rumors It Is.

Hate And Force Cannot Be In Just A Part Of The World Without Having An Effect On The Rest Of It.

Somewhere Along The Line Of Development We Discover What We Really Are And Then Make Our Real Decision For Which We Are Responsible. Make That Decision Primarily For Yourself Because You Can Never Really Live Anyone Else's Lie, Not Even Your Child's. The Influence You Exert Is Through Your Own Life And What You Become Yourself.

You Achieve Strength, Braveness And Confidence By Each Experience In Which You Really Halt To Search Dread During The Deal With

All Wars Eventually Act As Boomerangs And The Victor Suffers As Much As The Vanquished.

Be Confident, Not Certain

One Thing Life Has Taught Me: If You Are Interested, You Never Have To Look For New Interests. They Come To You. When You Are Genuinely Interested In One Thing, It Will Always Lead To Something Else.

I Have Spent Many Years Of My Life In Opposition, And I Rather Like The Role.

To Be Mature You Have To Realize What You Value Most... Not To Arrive At A Clear Understanding Of One's Own Values Is A Tragic Waste. You Have Missed The Whole Point Of What Life Is For.

It Is Always Easier To Do Nothing Than To Try A New Line Of Action.

Mahatma Gandhi I Would Say Had Perhaps A Greater Spiritual Quality Whereas Winston Churchill Had Besides The Courage, Ability And Above Everything Else, The Ability To Put Into Words What His People Felt So That He Could Always Lead Them. And My Own Husband I Think Had Great Patience, Which You Need In A Democracy Because You Have To Come To Do Fundamental Things, You Have To Have The Patience To Have People Educated; And Then I Think He Had A Deep Interest In Human Beings As Human Beings.

Long Ago, There Was A Noble Word, Liberal, Which Derives From The Word Free. Now A Strange Thing Happened To That Word. A Man Named Hitler Made It A Term Of Abuse, A Matter Of Suspicion, Because Those Who Were Not With Him Were Against Him, And Liberals Had No Use For Hitler. And Then Another Man Named Mccarthy Cast The Same Opprobrium On The Word. ... We Must Cherish And Honor The Word Free Or It Will Cease To Apply To Us.

Long Ago, I Made Up My Mind That, When Things Were Said Involving Only Me, I Would Pay No Attention To Them, Except When Valid Criticism Was Carried By Which I Could Profit.

Do The Things That Interest You And Do Them With All Your Heart. Don't Be Concerned About Whether People Are Watching You Or Criticizing You. The Chances Are That They Aren't Paying Attention To You.

The American Dream Can No More Remain Static Than Can The American Nation.... We Cannot Any Longer Take An Old Approach To World Problems. They Aren't The Same Problems. It Isn't The Same World. We Must Not Adopt The Methods Of Our Ancestors; Instead, We Must Emulate That Pioneer Quality In Our Ancestors That Made Them Attempt New Methods For A New World.

It's Your Life-but Only If You Make It So.

If We Do Not Pay For Children In Good Schools, Then We Are Going To Pay For Them In Prisons And Mental Hospitals.

The Basis Of World Peace Is The Teaching Which Runs Through Almost All The Great Religions Of The World. Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself.

Anger Is One Letter Short Of Danger.

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