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I Have A Great Belief In Spiritual Force, But I Think We Have To Realize That Spiritual Force Alone Has To Have Material Force With It So Long As We Live In A Material World. The Two Together Make A Strong Combination.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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I Have A Great Belief In Spiritual Force, But I Think We Have To Realize That Spiritual Force Alone Has To Have Material Force With It So Long As We Live In A Material World. The Two Together Make A Strong Combination.

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We Will Never Have Peace Without Friendship Around The World.

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

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The Only Advantage Of Not Being Too Good A Housekeeper Is That Your Guests Are So Pleased To Feel How Very Much Better They Are.

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

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We Must Do That Which We Think We Cannot.

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The Future Belongs To Those Who Believe In The Beauty Of Their Dreams.

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Never Be Bored, And You Will Never Be Boring.

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Perhaps Nature Is Our Best Assurance Of Immortality.

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Impossible Things

Comparison Is The Thief Of All Joy.

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The Will Of The People Shall Be The Basis Of The Authority Of Government.

Feelings, Too, Are Facts. Emotion Is A Fact. Human Experience Is A Fact. It Is Often Possible To Gain More Real Insight Into Human Beings And Their Motivation By Reading Great Fiction Than By Personal Acquaintance.

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.

A Democratic Form Of Government, A Democratic Way Of Life, Presupposes Free Public Education Over A Long Period; It Presupposes Also An Education For Personal Responsibility That Too Often Is Neglected.

Some Friends Leave Footprints In Your Heart

Friends Come And Go

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Freedom Makes A Huge Requirement Of Every Human Being. With Freedom Comes Responsibility. For The Person Who Is Unwilling To Grow Up, The Person Who Does Not Want To Carry Is Own Weight, This Is A Frightening Prospect.

You Need Not Be Proud Of Me.... I'm Only Being Active Till You Can Be Again--it Isn't Such A Great Desire On My Part To Serve Theworld And I'll Fall Back Into Habits Of Sloth Quite Easily!

With The New Day Comes New Strength And New Thoughts.

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.

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

Make The Most Of What You Have, When You Have It, Where You Are.

We Are Afraid To Care Too Much, For Fear That The Other Person Does Not Care At All.

If You Lose Money You Lose Much, If You Lose Friends You Lose More, If You Lose Faith You Lose All.

There Is In Every Country An Antipathy To The Foreigner.

Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You.

You [future First Ladies] Will Feel That You Are No Longer Clothing Yourself, You Are Dressing A Public Monument.

When You Build A Memorial, You Build It Not Because The Person Wanted It, But For The Future -- For Generations Who Didn't Know The Man And Didn't Know The Era In Which He Lived.

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.

To Most Teenagers, Life Is A Strange Uncharted Land Filled With A Mixture Of New Joys, Intensely Felt, And Painful Confusions For Which They Know No Anodyne.

The Film Industry Is A Great Industry, With Infinite Possibilities For Good And Bad. Its Primary Purpose Is To Entertain People. On The Side, It Can Do Many Other Things. It Can Popularize Certain Ideals, It Can Make Education Palatable. But In The Long Run, The Judge Who Decides Whether What It Does Is Good Or Bad Is The Man Or Woman Who Attends The Movies.

Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

You Can Often Change Your Circumstances By Changing Your Attitude

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.

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

I'm So Glad I Never Feel Important, It Does Complicate Life!

It Is Not That You Set The Individual Apart From Society But That You Recognize In Any Society That The Individual Must Have Rights That Are Guarded.

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