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Everyone Has The Right To Freedom Of Thought, Conscience And Religion; This Right Includes Freedom To Change His Religion Or Belief, And Freedom, Either Alone Or In Community With Others And In Public Or Private, To Manifest His Religion Or Belief In Teaching, Practice, Worship And Observance.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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Everyone Has The Right

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Everyone Has The Right To Freedom Of Thought, Conscience And Religion; This Right Includes Freedom To Change His Religion Or Belief, And Freedom, Either Alone Or In Community With Others And In Public Or Private, To Manifest His Religion Or Belief In Teaching, Practice, Worship And Observance.

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An Economic Policy Which Does Not Consider The Well-being Of All Will Not Serve The Purposes Of Peace And The Growth Of Well-being Among The People Of All Nations.

Change Means The Unknown.

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

Comparison Is The Thief Of All Joy.

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

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

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

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

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

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Never Allow A Person To Tell You No Who Doesn't Have The Power To Say Yes.

Understanding Is A Two-way Street.

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

People Grow Through Experience If They Meet Life Honestly And Courageously. This Is How Character Is Built.

One Thing Is For Sure-none Of The Arts Flourishes On Censorship And Repression. And By This Time It Should Be Evident That The American Public Is Capable Of Doing Its Own Censoring.

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

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

I Know That We Will Be The Sufferers If We Let Great Wrongs Occur Without Exerting Ourselves To Correct Them.

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.

Nothing Has Ever Been Achieved By The Person Who Says, ‘it Can’t Be Done.’

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When You Cease To Make A Contribution, You Begin To Die.

Have Convictions. Be Friendly. Stick To Your Beliefs As They Stick To Theirs. Work As Hard As They Do.

I Would Not Be Happy Unless I Had Some Regular Work To Do Every Day And I Imagine That I Will Always Feel That Way No Matter How Old I Am.

We Must Know What We Think And Speak Out, Even At The Risk Of Unpopularity.

Our Real Battlefield Today Is Asia And Our Real Battle Is The One Between Democracy And Communism. . . . We Have To Prove To The World And Particularly To Downtrodden Areas Of The World Which Are The Natural Prey To The Principles Of Communist Economics That Democracy Really Brings About Happier And Better Conditions For The People As A Whole.

Somehow We Must Be Able To Show People That Democracy Is Not About Words, But Action.

Everybody Wants Something.

You Gain Strength, Courage, And Confidence By Every Experience In Which You Really Stop To Look Fear In The Face.... The Danger Lies In Refusing To Face The Fear, In Not Daring To Come To Grips With It. If You Fail Anywhere Along The Line It Will Take Away Your Confidence. You Must Make Yourself Succeed Every Time. You Must Do The Thing You Think You Cannot 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.

Actors Are One Family Over The Entire World.

When It's Better For Everyone, It's Better For Everyone.

I Can't Tell You How To Succeed, But I Can Tell You How To Fail: Try To Please Everybody.

Anger Is One Letter Short Of Danger.

The People Who Came To New England, Came For Freedom Of Religion. The Problem Is, Freedom Of Religion To Them Meant Freedom For Only Their Religion

We Must Do What We Think We Can't Do.

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It Is Not More Vacation We Need — It Is More Vocation.

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

To Leave The World Richer—that Is The Ultimate Success.

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

You In The Unions Do Not Yet Represent All Of Labor. But I Hope Some Day You Will, Because I Believe That It Is Through Strength, Through The Fact That People Who Know What People Need Are Working To Make This Country A Better Place For All People, That We Will Help The World To Accept Our Leadership And Understand That, Under Our Form Of Government And Through Our Way Of Life, We Have Something To Offer Them.

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

I Believe In Active Citizenship, For Men And Women Equally, As A Simple Matter Of Right And Justice. I Believe We Will Have Better Government In All Of Our Countries When Men And Women Discuss Public Issues Together And Make Their Decisions On The Basis Of Their Different Areas Of Experience And Their Common Concern For The Welfare Of Their Families And Their World.

If Life Were Predictable It Would Cease To Be Life, And Be Without Flavor.

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No Man Is Defeated Without Until He Has First Been Defeated Within.

I Learned Then That Practically No One In The World Is Entirely Bad Or Entirely Good, And That Motives Are Often More Important Than Actions.

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

To A Certain Extent I Don't See Any Real Need For Socialism In The United States Immediately, But Things Change And It May Be That There Will Come A Need For Partial Changes In Our Economy.

We Can No Longer Oversimplify. We Can No Longer Build Lazy And False Stereotypes: Americans Are Like This, Russians Are Like That, A Jew Behaves In Such A Way, A Negro Thinks In A Different Way. The Lazy Generalities - 'you Know How Women Are ... Isn't That Just Like A Man?' The World Cannot Be Understood From A Single Point Of View.

I Wonder If Communists Occupied In Producing Plays Are Not Safer Than Communists Starving To Death. I Have Always Felt That Whatever Your Beliefs Might Be, If You Could Earn Enough To Keep Body And Soul Together And Had To Be Pretty Busy Doing That, You Would Not Be Very Apt To Have Time To Plot The Overthrow Of Any Existing Government.

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Courage Is Exhilarating.

You Never Know Anyone Until You Marry Them.

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

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.

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

The Bible Illustrated By Dore Occupied Many Of My Hours - And I Think Probably Gave Me Many Nightmares.

If You Can Develop This Ability To See What You Look At, To Understand Its Meaning, To Readjust Your Knowledge To This New Information, You Can Continue To Learn And To Grow As Long As You Live And You’ll Have A Wonderful Time Doing It.

Your Life Is Your Own. You Mold It. You Make It. All Anyone Can Do Is To Point Out Ways And Means Which Have Been Helpful To Others. Perhaps They Will Serve As Suggestions To Stimulate Your Own Thinking Until You Know What It Is That Will Fulfill You, Will Help You To Find Out What You Want To Do With Your Life.

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

The Kind Of Man Who Thinks That Helping With The Dishes Is Beneath Him Will Also Think That Helping With The Baby Is Beneath Him, And Then He Certainly Is Not Going To Be A Very Successful Father.

Friends, You And Me... You Brought Another Friend... And Then There Were Three... We Started Our Group... Our Circle Of Friends... And Like That Circle... There Is No Beginning Or End.

What Could We Accomplish If We Knew We Could Not Fail?

Life Is Meant To Be Lived.

I Think It Is Impossible For One Human Being Really To Know Another Without First Knowing And Being At Peace With Himself.

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

Enjoy Every Minute You Have With Those You Love, My Dear, For No One Can Take Joy That Is Past Away From You. It Will Be There In Your Heart To Live On When The Dark Days Come.

Nothing Alive Can Stand Still, It Goes Forward Or Back. Life Is Interesting Only As Long As It Is A Process Of Growth; Or, To Put It Another Way, We Can Only Grow As Long As We Are Interested.

Life Has Got To Be Lived - That's All There Is To It.

This Too Shall Pass

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 ... 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.

I Have Often Thought That Less Is Expected Of The President Of A Great Corporation Than Of An American Wife.

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.

Nearly All Great Civilizations That Perished Did So Because They Had Crystallized, Because They Were Incapable Of Adapting Themselves To New Conditions, New Methods, New Points Of View. It Is As Though People Would Rather Die Than Change.

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.

There Is No More Precious Experience In Life Than Friendship. And I Am Not Forgetting Love And Marriage As I Write This; The Lovers, Or The Man And Wife, Who Are Not Friends Are But Weakly Joined Together. One Enlarges His Circle Of Friends Through Contact With Many People. One Who Limits Those Contacts Narrows The Circle And Frequently His Own Point Of View As Well.

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.

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

There Is In Every Country An Antipathy To The Foreigner.

You Can Never Really Live Anyone Else's Life, Not Even Your Child's. The Influence You Exert Is Through Your Own Life, And What You've Become Yourself.

Transcendentalism

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.

We All Create The Person We Become By Our Choices As We Go Through Life. In A Real Sense, By The Time We Are Adults, We Are The Sum Total Of The Choices We Have Made.

A Little Simplification Would Be The First Step Toward Rational Living, I Think.

Inspirational Life

Sailors Have The Cleanest Bodies And The Filthiest Minds.

If It's A Man's Game So Decidedly That A Woman Would Be Soiled By Entering It, Then There Is Something Radically Wrong With The American Game Of Politics.

Organize First For Knowledge, First With The Object Of Making Us Know Ourselves As A Nation, For We Have To Do That Before We Canbe Of Value To Other Nations Of The World And Then Organize To Accomplish The Things That You Decide To Want. Anddon't Make Decisions With The Interest Of Youth Alone Before You. Make Your Decisions Because They Are Good For The Nation As A Whole.

I Think That In Great Crises You Need To Have Deep Rooted Convictions And I Have A Feeling From The Kind Of Campaigns That I Have Watched Mr. Nixon In In The Past That His Convictions Are Not Very Strong.

To Me Who Dreamed So Much As A Child, Who Made A Dreamworld In Which I Was The Heroine Of An Unending Story, The Lives Of People Around Me Continued To Have A Certain Storybook Quality. I Learned Something Which Has Stood Me In Good Stead Many Times - The Most Important Thing In Any Relationship Is Not What You Get But What You Give.

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

We Women Are Callow Fledglings As Compared With The Wise Old Birds Who Manipulate The Political Machinery, And We Still Hesitate To Believe That A Woman Can Fill Certain Positions In Public Life As Competently And Adequately As A Man. For Instance, It Is Certain That Women Do Not Want A Woman For President. Nor Would They Have The Slightest Confidence In Her Ability To Fulfill The Functions Of That Office. Every Woman Who Fails In A Public Position Confirms This, But Every Woman Who Succeeds Creates Confidence.

Of All The Nations In The Western World, The United States, With The Most Money And The Most Time, Has The Fewest Readers Of Books Per Capita. This Is An Incalculable Loss. This, Too, Is One Of The Few Civilized Nations In The World Which Is Unable To Support A Single Magazine Devoted Solely To Books.

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