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Anyone Who Knows History, Particularly The History Of Europe, Will, I Think, Recognize That The Domination Of Education Or Of Government By Any One Particular Religious Faith Is Never A Happy Arrangement For The People.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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Anyone Who Knows History,

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Anyone Who Knows History, Particularly The History Of Europe, Will, I Think, Recognize That The Domination Of Education Or Of Government By Any One Particular Religious Faith Is Never A Happy Arrangement For The People.

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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 Official Was To Do Exactly As The Majority Of Women Were Doing.

All Human Beings Are Born Free And Equal In Dignity And Rights.

Tomorrow Is A Mystery. Today Is A Gift. That Is Why It Is Called The Present.

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I Have Complete Faith In The American People's Ability If They Know And If They Have Leadership.

If You Believe That A Nation Is Really Better Off Which Achieves For A Comparative Few, Those Who Are Capable Of Attaining It, High Culture, Ease, Opportunity, And That These Few From Their Enlightenment Should Give What They Consider Best To Those Less Favored, Then You Naturally Belong To The Republican Party. But If You Believe That People Must Struggle Slowly To The Light For Themselves, Then It Seems To Me That You Are A Democrat.

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Before We Can Make Friends With Anyone Else, We Must First Make Friends With Ourselves.

Up To A Certain Point It Is Good For Us To Know That There Are People In The World Who Will Give Us Love And Unquestioned Loyalty To The Limit Of Their Ability. I Doubt, However, If It Is Good For Us To Feel Assured Of This Without The Accompanying Obligation Of Having To Justify This Devotion By Our Behavior.

...real Prosperity Can Only Come When Everybody Prospers.

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

The Economy Of Communism Is An Economy Which Grows In An Atmosphere Of Misery And Want.

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Campaign Behavior For Wives: Always Be On Time. Do As Little Talking As Humanly Possible. Lean Back In The Parade Car So Everybody Can See The President.

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No One Can Insult You Without Your Permission.

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Once Your Children Are Grown Up And Have Children Of Their Own, The Problems Are Theirs And The Less The Older Generation Interferes The Better.

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If You Have To Compromise, Be Sure To Compromise Up.

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

If Man Is To Be Liberated To Enjoy More Leisure, He Must Also Be Prepared To Enjoy This Leisure Fully And Creatively.

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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. One Must Work At It.

All The Water In The World Cannot Drown You Unless It Gets Inside Of You.

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

You Can't Move So Fast That You Try To Change The Mores Faster Than People Can Accept It. That Doesn't Mean You Do Nothing, But It Means That You Do The Things That Need To Be Done According To Priority.

Spiritual Leadership Should Remain Spiritual Leadership And The Temporal Power Should Not Become Too Important In Any Church.

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

One Of The First Things We Must Get Rid Of Is The Idea That Democracy Is Tantamount To Capitalism.

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It Takes Courage To Love, But Pain Through Love Is The Purifying Fire Which Those Who Love Generously Know.

Beautiful Young People Are Accidents Of Nature, But Beautiful Old People Are Works Of Art.

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When Will Our Consciences Grow So Tender That We Will Act To Prevent Human Misery Rather Than Avenge It?

I Think If The People Of This Country Can Be Reached With The Truth, Their Judgment Will Be In Favor Of The Many, As Against The Privileged Few

Life Is Meant To Be Lived.

Curiosity Must Be Kept Alive.

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Character Building Begins In Our Infancy And Continues Until Death.

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

Terrific Minds Focus On Tips; Average Minds Go Over Activities; Little Minds Talk About People Today.

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.

The Most Important Word In The English Language Is Hope.

Nothing We Learn In This World Is Ever Wasted.

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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.

It Seems To Me That It Is The Basic Right Of Any Human Being To Work.

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

It Is Curious How Much More Interest Can Be Evoked By A Mixture Of Gossip, Romance And Mystery Than By Facts.

I Believe That Anyone Can Conquer Fear By Doing The Things He Fears To Do.

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About The Only Value The Story Of My Life May Have Is To Show That One Can, Even Without Any Particular Gifts, Overcome Obstacles That Seem Insurmountable If One Is Willing To Face The Fact That They Must Be Overcome.

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

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If You Have Any Interests You Can Gain A Wider Audience For Those Interests While The Goldfish Bowl Is Yours!

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

A Woman Is Like A Tea Bag - You Can't Tell How Strong She Is Until You Put Her In Hot Water.

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

No Matter How Plain A Woman May Be, If Truth And Honesty Are Written Across Her Face, She Will Be Beautiful.

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.

I Never Thought Of Achievement. I Just Did What Came Along For Me To Do - The Thing That Gave Me The Most Pleasure.

Always Be On Time. Never Try To Make Any Personal Engagements. Do As Little Talking As Humanly Possible. Never Be Disturbed By Anything. Always Do What You're Told To Do As Quickly As Possible. Remember To Lean Back In A Parade, So That People Can See Your Husband. Don't Get Too Fat To Ride Three On A Seat. Get Out Of The Way As Quickly As You're Not Needed.

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

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

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

If Everything Was In Your Favor, If You Did Not Have To Surmount Any Great Mountains, Then You Have Nothing To Be Proud Of. But If You Feel That You Have Special Difficulties, Then You Must Indeed Be Proud Of Your Achievement.

You Always Admire What You Really Don't Understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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No One Can Move Without Some Leadership.

Surely, In The Light Of History, It Is More Intelligent To Hope Rather Than To Fear, To Try Rather Than Not To Try. For One Thing We Know Beyond All Doubt: Nothing Has Ever Been Achieved By The Person Who Says: It Can't Be Done.

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.

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.

Those Of Us Who Believe In The Right Of Any Human Being To Belong To Whatever Church He Sees Fit, And To Worship God In His Own Way, Cannot Be Accused Of Prejudice When We Do Not Want To See Public Education Connected With Religious Control Of The Schools, Which Are Paid For By Taxpayers' Money.

Happiness Is Not A Goal, It Is A By-product. For What Keeps Our Interest In Life And Makes Us Look Forward To Tomorrow Is Giving Pleasure To Other People.

Practically Nothing We Do Ever Stands By Itself. If It Is Good, It Will Serve Some Good Purpose In The Future. If It Is Evil, It May Haunt Us And Handicap Our Efforts In Unimagined Ways.

Life Must Be Lived And Curiosity Kept Alive. One Must Never, For Whatever Reason, Turn His Back On Life.

When Life Is Too Easy For Us, We Must Beware Or We May Not Be Ready To Meet The Blows Which Sooner Or Later Come To Everyone, Rich Or Poor.

Life's Not About Expecting, Hoping And Wishing. It's About Doing, Being And Becoming. It's About T Learn From The Mistakes Of Others. You Can't Live Long Enough To Make Them All Yourself.

People Can Only Make You Inferior With Your Consent.

If We Fail To Meet Our Problems Here, No One Else In The World Will Do So. If We Fail, The Heart Goes Out Of Progressives Throughout The World.

The Hard Part Of Loving Is That One Has To Learn So Often To Let Go Of Those We Love, So They Can Do Things, So They Can Grow, So They Can Return To Us With An Even Richer, Deeper Love.

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Nobody Else Is Going To Do The Things Which Are Yours To Be Done In The World.

The Purpose Of Life Is To Live It, To Taste Experience To The Utmost, To Reach Out Eagerly And Without Fear For Newer And Richer Experience.

Every Woman Wants To Be First To Someone Sometime In Her Life And That Desire Is The Explanation For Many Strange Things Women Do.

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