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Do Whatever Comes Your Way To Do As Well As You Can. Think As Little As Possible About Yourself. Think As Much As Possible About Other People. Dwell On Things That Are Interesting. Since You Get More Joy Out Of Giving Joy To Others, You Should Put A Good Deal Of Thought Into The Happiness That You Are Able To Give.

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Do Whatever Comes Your Way To Do As Well As You Can. Think As Little As Possible About Yourself. Think As Much As Possible About Other People. Dwell On Things That Are Interesting. Since You Get More Joy Out Of Giving Joy To Others, You Should Put A Good Deal Of Thought Into The Happiness That You Are Able To Give.

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You'll Be "damned If You Do, And Damned If You Don't."

Keep Us At Tasks Too Hard For Us That We May Be Driven To Thee For Strength.

A Society In Which There Is Widespread Economic Insecurity Can Turn Freedom Into A Barren And Vapid Right For Millions Of People.

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We Stand Today At The Threshold Of A Great Event Both In The Life Of The United Nations And In The Life Of Mankind, That Is The Approval By The General Assembly Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights.

Comparison Is The Thief Of All Joy.

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There Are Practical Little Things In Housekeeping Which No Man Really Understands.

Democracy Cannot Be Static. Whatever Is Static Is Dead.

Success Must Include Two Things: The Development Of An Individual To His Utmost Potentiality And A Contribution Of Some Kind To One's World.

If You Prepare Yourself At Every Point As Well As You Can, With Whatever Means You May Have, However Meager They May Seem, You Will Be Able To Grasp Opportunity For Broader Experience When It Appears. Without Preparation You Cannot Do It.

Home-making Today Should Have A Background Of Scientific Training Because Only In This Way Can Real Efficiency Be Achieved. The Average Girl Wants To Be Able To Keep Her House With The Least Possible Strain, And In Order To Do This She Must Have Good Training. This Can Best Be Achieved By Taking A Good Course In Home Economics.

You Should Always Own A Black Dress Because No One Ever Remembers A Black Dress.

I Feel Quite Sure That The American People, If They Have Knowledge And Leadership, Can Meet Any Crisis Just As Well As They Met It Over And Over Again In The Past.

All Big Things In Human History Have Been Arrived At Slowly And Through Many Compromises.

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A Day Out-of-doors, Someone I Loved To Talk With, A Good Book And Some Simple Food And Music - That Would Be Rest.

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

To Tell The People In The West Not To Use Their Cars Means That These People May Never See Another Soul For Weeks And Weeks Nor Have A Way Of Getting A Sick Person To A Doctor.

I Have Learned Long Ago To Possess My Soul In Patience And Accept The Inevitable.

I Could Not, At Any Age, Be Content To Take My Place By The Fireside And Simply Look On. Life Was Meant To Be Lived. Curiosity Must Be Kept Alive. One Must Not, For Whatever Reason, Turn His Back On Life." Another "no One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent.

...but There Isn't Going To Be Any First Lady. There Is Just To Be Plain, Ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...i Never Wanted To Be The President's Wife, And Don't Want It Now. You Don't Quite Believe Me, Do You? Very Likely No One Would-except Possibly Some Woman Who Had Had The Job.

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.

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

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