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How Can We Be Such Fools As To Go On Senselessly Taking Human Life In This Way? Why The Women In Every Nation Do Not Rise Up And Refuse To Bring Children Into A World Of This Kind Is Beyond My Understanding.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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How Can We Be Such Fools As To Go On Senselessly Taking Human Life In This Way? Why The Women In Every Nation Do Not Rise Up And Refuse To Bring Children Into A World Of This Kind Is Beyond My Understanding.

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Life Is Like A Parachute Jump, You've Got To Get It Right The First Time.

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Questioning Why

If The Use Of Leisure Time Is Confined To Looking At Tv For A Few Extra Hours Every Day, We Will Deteriorate As A People.

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

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.

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

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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You Never Have A Normal Family Relationship In The White House; It's An Impossible Thing To Have. You Live In A Goldfish Bubble, And You Snatch What You Can For A Personal Life, But You Never Have A Normal, Natural Existence.

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

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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Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

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

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Those Who Attack Always Do So With Greater Fervor Than Those Who Defend.

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You Have To Accept Whatever Comes And The Only Important Thing Is That You Meet It With Courage And With The Best That You Have To Give.

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

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

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No Writing Has Any Real Value Which Is Not The Expression Of Genuine Thought And Feeling.

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No One Can Insult You Without Your Permission.

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

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

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The World Conspires To Help Those Who Are In Love With The Beauty Of Their Dreams.

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Franklin's Illness...gave Him Strength And Courage He Had Not Had Before. He Had To Think Out The Fundamentals Of Living And Learn The Greatest Of All Lessons - Infinite Patience And Never Ending Persistence.

America Is All About Speed. Hot, Nasty, Bad-ass Speed.

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

I Shall Either Find A Way, Or Make One (attributed)

Beautiful Old People Are Works Of Art.

No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent.

...without Equality There Can Be No Democracy.

All Of Us In This Country Give Lip Service To The Ideals Set Forth In The Bill Of Rights And Emphasized By Every Additional Amendment, And Yet When War Is Stirring In The World, Many Of Us Are Ready To Curtail Our Civil Liberties. We Do Not Stop To Think That Curtailing These Liberties May In The End Bring Us A Greater Danger Than The Danger We Are Trying To Avert.

I Think That Somehow, We Learn Who We Really Are And Then Live With That Decision.

The Things You Refuse To Meet Today Always Come Back At You Later On, Usually Under Circumstances Which Make The Decision Twice As Difficult As It Originally Was.

All Of Us ... Should Remember That No Amount Of Flag-waving, Pledging Allegiance, Or Fervent Singing Of The National Anthem Is Evidence That We Are Patriotic In The Real Sense Of The Word. ... Outward Behavior, While Important, Is Not The Real Measure Of A Man's Patriotism.

We Need Our Radicals.

What Counts, In The Long Run, Is Not What You Read; It Is What You Sift Through Your Own Mind; It Is The Ideas And Impressions That Are Aroused In You By Your Reading. It Is The Ideas Stirred In Your Own Mind, The Ideas Which Are A Reflection Of Your Own Thinking, Which Make You An Interesting Person

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

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

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

There Is A Desire For Progress In The Hearts Of All Men, And It Is The Sense Of Frustration And Inability To Move Forward That Brings Violent Revolution.

Sometimes It Is Extremely Good For You To Forget That There Is Anything In The World Which Needs To Be Done, And To Do Some Particular Thing That You Want To Do. Every Human Being Needs A Certain Amount Of Time In Which He Can Be Peaceful.

Old Age Has Deformities Enough Of Its Own. It Should Never Add To Them The Deformity Of Vice.

Funny Relationship

I'm Intensely Anxious To Preserve The Freedom That Gives You The Right To Think And To Act And To Talk As You Please. That I Think Is Essential To Happiness And The Life Of The People.

I Have Never Believed That War Settled Anything Satisfactorily, But I Am Not Entirely Sure That Some Times There Are Certain Situations In The World Such As We Have In Actuality When A Country Is Worse Off When It Does Not Go To War For Its Principles Than If It Went To War.

Most Of The Work That's Done In The World Gets Done By People Who Weren't Feeling All That Well At The Time That They Did It.

I Think The Thing We Must Look For Actually Is A Growth In Our People And In Whoever Comes In A Quality Of Courage To Tell Our People Just What World Conditions Are.

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

Curiously Enough, It Is Often The People Who Refuse To Assume Any Responsibility Who Are Apt To Be The Sharpest Critics Of Those Who Do.

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.

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

The Greatest Luxury I Know Is Sitting Up Reading In Bed.

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

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.

I Found That Almost Everyone Had Something Interesting To Contribute To My Education.

Something Interesting

It Is Harder To Be Philosophical When You Are Young.

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