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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.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
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It Is A Brave Thing To Have Courage To Be An Individual; It Is Also, Perhaps, A Lonely Thing. But It Is Better Than Not Being An Individual, Which Is To Be Nobody At All.
Lonely
Brave
Individual
Where, After All, Do Universal Human Rights Begin? In Small Places, Close To Home.
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Rights
Community
Work Is Always An Antidote To Depression.
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Antidote
You Seem To Think That Everyone Can Save Money If They Have The Character To Do It. As A Matter Of Fact, There Are Innumerable People Who Have A Wide Choice Between Saving And Giving Their Children The Best Possible Opportunities. The Decision Is Usually In Favor Of The Children.
Children
Character
Opportunity
To Some Of Us, Hunger Was More Academic Than Real, But We Must Try To Develop The Ability To Feel The Urgency Of Such A Situation.
Real
Trying
Hunger
Character Building Begins In Our Infancy And Continues Until Death.
Life
Character
Building
Life Is Like A Parachute Jump, You've Got To Get It Right The First Time.
Motivational
Life Is Like
Firsts
Manipulate The Situation To Create The Reality Of Your Desire
Reality
Desire
Situation
Philosophy Is Not Best Expressed In Words; It Is Expressed In The Choices One Makes.
Being Yourself
Philosophy
Inspiration
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.
People
Giving
Goal
I Shall Either Find A Way, Or Make One (attributed)
Inspirational
Life
Tattoo
I Never Thought Of Achievement. I Just Did What Came Along For Me To Do - The Thing That Gave Me The Most Pleasure.
Work
Achievement
Pleasure
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.
Relationship
Friendship Love
Misery
You [future First Ladies] Will Feel That You Are No Longer Clothing Yourself, You Are Dressing A Public Monument.
Future
Firsts
First Lady
Most Women, I Think, Though They May Complain A Little About This, Would Agree That Meeting The Needs Of Others Is Not A Real Burden; It Is What Makes Life Worth Living. It Is Probably The Deepest Satisfaction A Woman Has.
Women
Real
Thinking
I Wish I Really Knew What The Republican Foreign Policy Has Been. I Don't. I Am A Democrat, And I Really Don't Know What It Has Been.
Wish
Republican
Democrat
Happiness Is Not A Goal, It Is A By-product. Paradoxically, The One Sure Way Not To Be Happy Is Deliberately To Map Out A Way Of Life In Which One Would Please Oneself Completely And Exclusively.
Business
Goal
Way
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.
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Talking
People
The Only Things One Can Admire At Length Are Those One Admires Without Knowing Why.
Knowing
Admiration
Length
We Must Be Willing To Learn The Lesson That Cooperation May Imply Compromise, But If It Brings A World Advance It Is A Gain For Each Individual Nation.
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May
Gains
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I Have Often Felt That I Cheated My Children A Little. I Was Never So Totally Theirs As Most Mothers Are. I Gave To Audiences Whatbelonged To My Children, Got Back From Audiences The Love My Children Longed To Give Me.
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Children
Giving
I Believe That It Is Essential To Our Leadership In The World And To The Development Of True Democracy In Our Country To Have No Discrimination In Our Country Whatsoever. This Is Most Important In The Schools Of Our Country.
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Believe
Wife
Do The Things That Interest You And Do Them With All Your Heart. Don't Be Concerned About Whether People Are Watching You Or Criticizing You. The Chances Are That They Aren't Paying Attention To You.
Heart
People
Attention
Love Can Often Be Misguided And Do As Much Harm As Good, But Respect Can Do Only Good. It Assumes That The Other Person's Stature Is As Large As One's Own, His Rights As Reasonable, His Needs As Important.
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Important
... Many Of The Things Which We Deplore, The Prevalence Of Tuberculosis, The Mounting Record Of Crime In Certain Sections Of The Country, Are Not Due Just To Lack Of Education And To Physical Differences, But Are Due In Great Part To The Basic Fact Of Segregation Which We Have Set Up In This Country And Which Warps And Twists The Lives Not Only Of Our Negro Population, But Sometimes Of Foreign Born Or Even Of Religious Groups.
Country
Religious
Differences
Beautiful Young People Are Accidents Of Nature, But Beautiful Old People Are Works Of Art.
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Art
I Have Never Felt That Anything Really Mattered But Knowing That You Stood For The Things In Which You Believed And Had Done The Very Best You Could.
Knowing
Done
Felt
Only A Man's Character Is The Real Criterion Of Worth.
Real
Character
Men
To Handle Yourself, Use Your Head; To Handle Others, Use Your Heart.
Inspirational
Leadership
Team
Every Time You Meet A Situation You Think At The Time It Is An Impossibility And You Go Through The Tortures Of The Damned, Once You Have Met It And Lived Through It, You Find That Forever After You Are Freer Than You Were Before.
Inspirational
Life
Courage
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.
Long Ago
Mind
Criticism
No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent.
Inspirational
Motivational
Happiness
Terrific Minds Focus On Tips; Average Minds Go Over Activities; Little Minds Talk About People Today.
Average
People
Focus
The Destiny Of Human Rights Is In The Hands Of All Our Citizens In All Our Communities.
Destiny
Rights
Hands
You Wouldn't Worry So Much About What Others Think Of You If You Realized How Seldom They Do.
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
Life Is What You Make It. Always Has Been, Always Will Be.
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
I Have Always Seen Life Personally; My Interest Or Sympathy Or Indignation Is Not Aroused By An Abstract Cause But By The Plight Of A Single Person...out Of My Response To An Individual Develops An Awareness Of A Problem To The Community, Then To The Country, Then To The World.
Country
Community
Causes
After The Discovery In 1918 Of Love Letters Revealing That Franklin Was Involved With Lucy Mercer: The Bottom Dropped Out Of My Own Particular World, I Faced Myself, My Surroundings, My World, Honestly For The First Time.
Love
Discovery
World
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.
Life
Children
Real
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.
Rights
Today
Approval
Human Resources Are The Most Valuable Assets The World Has. They Are All Needed Desperately.
World
Assets
Resources
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.
Real
Needs
May
It Takes Courage To Love, But Pain Through Love Is The Purifying Fire Which Those Who Love Generously Know. We All Know People Who Are So Much Afraid Of Pain That They Shut Themselves Up Like Clams In A Shell And, Giving Out Nothing, Receive Nothing And Therefore Shrink Until Life Is A Mere Living Death.
Love
Life
Inspiring
Of Course Mahatma Gandhi You Might Say Did Not Have So Much Physical Vigor But He Certainly Seemed To Have Extraordinary Resistance, Which Perhaps Is Rather Different From Physical Vigor.
Different
Vigor
Might
One Of The Best Ways Of Enslaving A People Is To Keep Them From Education... The Second Way Of Enslaving A People Is To Suppress The Sources Of Information, Not Only By Burning Books But By Controlling All The Other Ways In Which Ideas Are Transmitted.
Book
Ideas
People
As Life Developed, I Faced Each Problem As It Came Along. As My Activities And Work Broadened And Reached Out, I Never Tried To Shirk. I Tried Never To Evade An Issue. When I Found I Had Something To Do--i Just Did It.
Courage
Work
Issues
I Think It Is Impossible For One Human Being Really To Know Another Without First Knowing And Being At Peace With Himself.
Thinking
Knowing
Being Real
I Have Spent Many Years Of My Life In Opposition, And I Rather Like The Role.
Life Lesson
Years
Roles
You Can't Move So Fast That You Try To Change The Mores Faster Than People Can Accept It.
Moving
People
Priorities
The Family Is The Natural And Fundamental Group Unit Of Society And Is Entitled To Protection By Society And The State.
Society
Groups
Fundamentals
It Is Our Freedom To Progress That Makes Us All Want To Live And To Go On.
Progress
Goes On
Want
In All Our Contacts It Is Probably The Sense Of Being Really Needed And Wanted Which Gives Us The Greatest Satisfaction And Creates The Most Lasting Bond.
Soulmate
Giving
Stubborn
Choose A Challenge Instead Of Competence
Challenges
Competence
We Mast Show By Our Behavior That We Believe In Equality And Justice And That Our Religion Teaches Faith And Love And Charity To Our Fellow Men. Here Is Where Each Of Us Has A Job To Do That Must Be Done At Home, Because We Can Lose The Battle On The Soil Of The United States Just As Surely As We Can Lose It In Any One Of The Countries Of The World.
Country
Jobs
Believe
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.
Children
People
Giving
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.
Teenager
Land
Confusion
In Business Courtesy And Efficiency Have A Symbiotic Relationship.
Business
Courtesy
Efficiency
I Feel Quite Sure That What The American People Lack Is Knowledge.
People
Feels
Life Is Meant To Be Lived.
Life Is
Meant To Be
The Greatest Tragedy Of Old Age Is The Tendency For The Old To Feel Unneeded, Unwanted, And Of No Use To Anyone; The Secret Of Happiness In The Declining Years Is To Remain Interested In Life, As Active As Possible, Useful To Others, Busy, And Forward Looking.
Years
Secret
Tragedy
I Believe That Anyone Can Conquer Fear By Doing The Things He Fears To Do.
Inspirational
Motivational
Fear
There Is In Every Country An Antipathy To The Foreigner.
Country
Outsiders
Foreigners
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.
Responsibility
People
Assuming
Comparison Is The Thief Of All Joy.
Joy
Thieves
Comparison
Every Woman In Public Life Needs To Develop Skin As Tough As Rhinoceros Hide.
Skins
Needs
Tough
Sometimes I Wonder If We Shall Ever Grow Up In Our Politics And Say Definite Things Which Mean Something, Or Whether We Shall Always Go On Using Generalities To Which Everyone Can Subscribe, And Which Mean Very Little.
Growing Up
Mean
Political
You Can Often Change Your Circumstances By Changing Your Attitude
Inspirational
Attitude
Courageous
What Could We Accomplish If We Knew We Could Not Fail?
Inspirational
Confidence
Courageous
For Our Own Success To Be Real, It Must Contribute To The Success Of Others.
Success
Stress
Real
I Never Waste Time Looking Back.
Success
Waste
Wasting Time
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.
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
Obedience May Have Its Uses, But It Is No Substitute For Willing, Uncoerced Co-operation.
Use
May
Obedience
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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