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I Think That If The Atomic Bomb Did Nothing More, It Scared The People To The Point Where They Realized That Either They Must Do Something About Preventing War Or There Is A Chance That There Might Be A Morning When We Would Not Wake Up.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
I Think That If The Atomic Bomb Did Nothing More, It Scared The People To The Point Where They Realized That Either They Must Do Something About Preventing War Or There Is A Chance That There Might Be A Morning When We Would Not Wake Up.
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Real
Political
Politics
A Guest Is Really Good Or Bad Because Of The Host Or Hostess Who Makes Being A Guest An Easy Or A Difficult Task.
Guests
Tasks
Host
... The Next War Will Be A War In Which People Not Armies Will Suffer, And Our Boasted, Hard-earned Civilization Will Do Us No Good. Cannot The Women Rise To This Great Opportunity And Work Now, And Not Have The Double Horror, If Another War Comes, Of Losing Their Loved Ones, And Knowing That They Lifted No Finger When They Might Have Worked Hard?
War
Army
Opportunity
When You Know To Laugh And When To Look Upon Things As Too Absurd To Take Seriously, The Other Person Is Ashamed To Carry Through Even If He Was Serious About It.
Laughing
Looks
Serious
...so Much Attention Is Paid To The Aggressive Sins, Such As Violence And Cruelty, And Greed With All Their Tragic Effects, That Too Little Attention Is Paid To The Passive Sins, Such As Apathy And Laziness, Which In The Long Run Can Have A More Devastating And Destructive Effect Upon Society Than The Others.
Running
Long
Greed
I Shall Either Find A Way, Or Make One (attributed)
Inspirational
Life
Tattoo
In Our Country We Must Trust The People To Hear And See Both The Good And The Bad And To Choose The Good.
Country
People
Our Country
The Basis Of World Peace Is The Teaching Which Runs Through Almost All The Great Religions Of The World. Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself.
Love
Running
Peace
Comparison Is The Thief Of All Joy.
Joy
Thieves
Comparison
You [future First Ladies] Will Feel That You Are No Longer Clothing Yourself, You Are Dressing A Public Monument.
Future
Firsts
First Lady
No Matter How Plain A Woman May Be, If Truth And Honesty Are Written Across Her Face, She Will Be Beautiful.
Beauty
Beautiful
Truth
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.
Peaceful
Needs
Done
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
The Fundamental Right Of Freedom Of Thought And Expression Is Essential. If You Curtail What The Other Fellow Says And Does, You Curtail What You Yourself May Say And Do.
Rights
Expression
Essentials
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.
Happiness
Faith
Education
In Business Courtesy And Efficiency Have A Symbiotic Relationship.
Business
Courtesy
Efficiency
When You Look Fear In The Face, You Are Able To Say To Yourself, 'i Lived Through This Horror. I Can Take The Next Thing That Comes Along.'
Strong Women
Courage
Fear
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.
Children
Understanding
Goes On
It Is Not Fair To Ask Of Others What You Are Not Willing To Do Yourself.
Inspirational
Leadership
Loyalty
Think As Little As Possible About Yourself And As Much As Possible About Other People.
Positive
Thinking
People
Losing Money Is A Big Loss, Losing Friends Is Greater Than The Loss, Also Lost All Faith Is Lost
Loss
Losing Friends
Lost
I Believe You Should Tell The Story Of Injustices, Of Inequalities, Of Bad Conditions, So That The People As A Whole In This Country Really Face The Problems That People Who Are Pushed To The Point Of Striking Know All About, But Others Know Practically Nothing About.
Country
Believe
People
The Constant Pressure To Bring About Conformity Is A Dangerous Thing.
Pressure
Conformity
Dangerous
It Is Equality Of Monotony Which Makes The Strength Of The British Isles.
British
Isle
Monotony
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
I Think That Somehow, We Learn Who We Really Are And Then Live With That Decision.
Life
Self Esteem
Thinking
People Who 'view With Alarm' Never Build Anything.
Views
People
Negativity
I Think If The People Of This Country Can Be Reached With The Truth, Their Judgment Will Be In Favor Of The Many, As Against The Privileged Few
Country
Thinking
People
This Is A Time For Action — Not For War, But For Mobilization Of Every Bit Of Peace Machinery.
Peace
War
Action
The Most Important Word In The English Language Is Hope.
Hope
Important
Language
Every Age Is An Unknown Country.
Country
Age
Democracy Cannot Be Static. Whatever Is Static Is Dead.
Justice
Diversity
Democracy
A Woman Has, First Of All, Her Duties In Their Own Home, And There Are Many Women Particularly When They're Young, Who Can Do An Active Job In Their Community Like Being A Mayor, But Who Cannot Go To Washington Or Albany Or Wherever The Capital Of The State Is. There Are Others Who Can, Can Leave Home, Whose Children Are Older And So Forth. I Think It All Is A Personal Decision.
Jobs
Children
Home
One's Philosophy Is Not Best Expressed In Words; It Is Expressed In The Choices One Makes. In Stopping To Think Through The Meaning Of What I Have Learned, There Is Much That I Believe Intensely, Much I Am Unsure Of. In The Long Run, We Shape Our Lives And We Shape Ourselves. The Process Never Ends Until We Die. And, The Choices We Make Are Ultimately Our Own Responsibility.
Running
Philosophy
Believe
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
Get Out Of The Way As Quickly As You're Not Needed.
Way
Needed
Whatever Come We Have To Meet It.
Miscellaneous
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.
Guests
Cleaning
Advantage
Poverty Is An Expensive Luxury. We Cannot Afford It.
Luxury
Poverty
Expensive
A Society In Which There Is Widespread Economic Insecurity Can Turn Freedom Into A Barren And Vapid Right For Millions Of People.
People
Insecurity
Poverty
We All Grow Older And We All Have To Live With Ourselves.
Grows
It Seems To Me That It Is The Basic Right Of Any Human Being To Work.
Wise
Wisdom
Humans
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
Great Leaders Inspire People To Have Confidence In Themselves.
People
Leader
Inspire
The Hard Part Of Loving Is That One Has To Learn So Often To Let Go Of Those We Love, So They Can Do Things, So They Can Grow, So They Can Return To Us With An Even Richer, Deeper Love.
Love
Letting Go
Return
...no Matter How Avid They Themselves May Be For Praise And Appreciation, People Are Often Niggardly In Giving It To Others, However Merited It Is.
Appreciation
Avid
People
The Mind Must Be Trained, Rather Than The Memory.
Memories
Mind
Staying Aloof Is Not A Solution, It Is A Cowardly Evasion.
Staying
Evasion
Solutions
The Purpose Of Life Is To Live It, To Taste Experience To The Utmost, To Reach Out Eagerly And Without Fear For Newer And Richer Experience.
Inspirational
Life
Fear
Be Confident, Not Certain
Be Confident
Certain
No Human Being Can Ever 'own' Another, Whether In Friendship, Love, Marriage, Or Parenthood.
Friendship Love
Marriage Love
Parenthood
All Human Beings Are Born Free And Equal In Dignity And Rights.
Rights
Dignity
Born Free
How Hard It Is To Project Oneself Into The Future. We Are Always Prone To Think Of The Conditions Which Are With Us Today As Being Permanent Conditions.
Future
Thinking
Today
This Living In A Democracy Is A Problem, Isn't It?
Democracy
Problem
Miscellaneous
...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.
Jobs
Believe
Wife
One Thing Life Has Taught Me: If You Are Interested, You Never Have To Look For New Interests. They Come To You. When You Are Genuinely Interested In One Thing, It Will Always Lead To Something Else.
Inspirational
Life Lesson
Being Single
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
Strength That Goes Wrong Is Even More Dangerous Than Weakness That Goes Wrong.
Strength
Weakness
Dangerous
Have Convictions. Be Friendly. Stick To Your Beliefs As They Stick To Theirs. Work As Hard As They Do.
Work
Friendly
Sticks
The War For Freedom Will Never Really Be Won Because The Price Of Freedom Is Constant Vigilance Over Ourselves And Over Our Government.
Freedom
War
Libertarian Party
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
It Is Not More Vacation We Need — It Is More Vocation.
Vacation
Needs
Need Sleep
The Separation Of Church And State Is Extremely Important To Any Of Us Who Holds To The Original Traditions Of Our Nation. . . . To Change These Traditions . . . Would Be Harmful To Our Whole Attitude Of Tolerance In The Religious Area. If We Look At Situations Which Have Arisen In The Past In Europe And Other World Areas, I Think We Will See The Reason Why It Is Wise To Hold To Our Early Traditions.
Wise
Religious
Attitude
Nobody Else Is Going To Do The Things Which Are Yours To Be Done In The World.
Done
World
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
There Is Nothing To Regret, Either For Those Who Go, Or For Those Who Stay Behind — Only An Inheritance Of Good Accomplishment To Be Lived Up To By Those Who Carry A Loving Memory In Their Hearts.
Regret
Left Behind
Behinds
Nothing We Learn In This World Is Ever Wasted.
Educational
World
This World
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.
Lying
Thinking
Growth
If We Do Not Pay For Children In Good Schools, Then We Are Going To Pay For Them In Prisons And Mental Hospitals.
Children
School
Pay
Mahatma Gandhi I Would Say Had Perhaps A Greater Spiritual Quality Whereas Winston Churchill Had Besides The Courage, Ability And Above Everything Else, The Ability To Put Into Words What His People Felt So That He Could Always Lead Them. And My Own Husband I Think Had Great Patience, Which You Need In A Democracy Because You Have To Come To Do Fundamental Things, You Have To Have The Patience To Have People Educated; And Then I Think He Had A Deep Interest In Human Beings As Human Beings.
Spiritual
Husband
Thinking
No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent.
Inspirational
Motivational
Happiness
Those Of Us Who Believe In The Right Of Any Human Being To Belong To Whatever Church He Sees Fit, And To Worship God In His Own Way, Cannot Be Accused Of Prejudice When We Do Not Want To See Public Education Connected With Religious Control Of The Schools, Which Are Paid For By Taxpayers' Money.
Religious
Believe
School
Will People Ever Be Wise Enough To Refuse To Follow Bad Leaders Or To Take Away The Freedom Of Other People?
Wise
People
Leader
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.
Organization
Decision
World
Never Be Bored, And You Will Never Be Boring.
Bored
Boring
At Any Age It Does Us No Harm To Look Over Our Past Shortcomings And Plan To Improve Our Characters And Actions In The Coming Year.
Character
Past
Years
The Destiny Of Human Rights Is In The Hands Of All Our Citizens In All Our Communities.
Destiny
Rights
Hands
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.
Thinking
People
Growth
The Bible Illustrated By Dore Occupied Many Of My Hours - And I Think Probably Gave Me Many Nightmares.
Thinking
Nightmare
Hours
We Need Emotional Outlets In This Country, And The More Artistic People We Develop The Better It Will Be For Us As A Nation.
Country
Creativity
Emotional
Government Exists For One Purpose: To Make Things Better For All People.
Government
People
Purpose
Women Are Like Tea Bags: Put Them In Hot Water And They Get Stronger.
Inspirational
Courage
Water
We Need Not Fear Any Isms If Our Democracy Is Achieving The Ends For Which It Was Established.
Fear
Democracy
Needs
Campaign Behavior For Wives: Always Be On Time. Do As Little Talking As Humanly Possible. Lean Back In The Parade Car So Everybody Can See The President.
Talking
Wife
Car
I'm Enormously Interested In Freedom And Retaining The Right To Have Whatever Economy We Want And To Shape It As We Want And A Having Sufficient Democracy So That The People Actually Hold Their Government In Their Own Hands.
Government
Hands
People
The Purpose Of Life Afterall Is To Live It.
Purpose
Purpose Of Life
You Must Do The Things You Think You Cannot Do.
Inspirational
Change
Positive
What We Must Learn To Do Is To Create Unbreakable Bonds Between The Sciences And The Humanities. We Cannot Procrastinate. The World Of The Future Is In Our Making. Tomorrow Is Now.
Humanity
World
Unbreakable Bonds
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.
Mean
Opportunity
Preparation
The Most Important Thing In Any Relationship Is Not What You Get But What You Give.... In Any Case, The Giving Of Love Is An Education In Itself.
Caring
Love Is
Giving
The Important Thing Is Neither Your Nationality Nor The Religion You Professed, But How Your Faith Translated Itself In Your Life.
Religion
Important
Important Things
It Is A Rather Curious Thing To Have To Divide One's Life Into Personal And Official Compartments And Temporarily Put The Personal Side Into Its Hidden Compartment To Be Taken Out Again When One's Official Duties Are At An End.
Taken
Sides
Curious
Perhaps Nature Is Our Best Assurance Of Immortality.
Nature
Immortality
Assurance
We Must Do What We Think We Can't Do.
Thinking
The Very Next Thing You Need To Be Doing Is The Thing That Terrifies You The Most.
Needs
Next
Beautiful Young People Are Accidents Of Nature, But Beautiful Old People Are Works Of Art.
Birthday
Beautiful
Art
Basically We Could Not Have Peace, Or An Atmosphere In Which Peace Could Grow, Unless We Recognized The Rights Of Individual Human Beings... Their Importance, Their Dignity... And Agreed That Was The Basic Thing That Had To Be Accepted Throughout The World.
Acceptance
Rights
Atmosphere
No One From The Beginning Of Time Has Had Security.
Adventure
Security
Practically Nothing We Do Ever Stands By Itself. If It Is Good, It Will Serve Some Good Purpose In The Future. If It Is Evil, It May Haunt Us And Handicap Our Efforts In Unimagined Ways.
Evil
Effort
Purpose
... 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
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.
Thinking
Giving
People
Life Must Be Lived And Curiosity Kept Alive. One Must Never, For Whatever Reason, Turn His Back On Life.
Life
Motivational
Strength
The Choices We Make Are Ultimately Our Responsibility.
Being Yourself
Responsibility
Personal Accountability
Ability Is Not Something To Be Saved, Like Money, In The Hope That You Can Draw Interest On It. The Interest Comes From The Spending. Unused Ability, Like Unused Muscles, Will Atrophy. It Is Tragic To Realize That The Majority Of Human Beings, Even The So-called Educated, Call Upon Only The Smallest Fraction Of Their Potential Capacity. They Leave Many Talents Dormant. They Fail To Develop Their Mental Qualities. They Are Almost Unaware Of The Degree Of Energy Upon Which They Might Call To Build A Full And Rewarding Life.
Quality
Might
Energy
Smearing Good People Like Lauchlin Currie [former Administrative Assistant To President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss And Others Is, I Think, Unforgiveable... Anyone Knowing Mr. Currie Or Mr. Hiss, Who Are The Two People Whom I Happen To Know Fairly Well, Would Not Need Any Denial On Their Part To Know They Are Not Communists. Their Records Prove It.
Thinking
Knowing
Two
What One Has To Do Usually Can Be Done.
Encouraging
Work
Political
Courage Is More Exhilarating Than Fear And In The Long Run It Is Easier. We Do Not Have To Become Heroes Over Night. Just A Step At A Time, Meeting Each Thing That Comes Up, Seeing It Is Not As Dreadful As It Appeared, Discovering We Have The Strength To Stare It Down.
Strength
Being Strong
Running
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
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.
Real
Patriotic
Men
When You Adopt The Standards And The Values Of Someone Else … You Surrender Your Own Integrity. You Become, To The Extent Of Your Surrender, Less Of A Human Being.
Integrity
Surrender
Standards
Poor Minds Talk About People Average Minds Talk About Events Great Minds Talk About Ideas
Average
Ideas
People
When You Are Genuinely Interested In One Thing, It Will Always Lead To Something Else.
One Thing
Only A Man's Character Is The Real Criterion Of Worth.
Real
Character
Men
Remember Always That You Have Not Only The Right To Be An Individual; You Have An Obligation To Be One.
Motivational
Strength
Being Yourself
The Marines I Have Seen Around The World Have The Cleanest Bodies, The Filthiest Minds, The Highest Morale, And The Lowest Morals Of Any Group Of Animals I Have Ever Seen. Thank God For The United States Marine Corps!
Thank You
Military
Marine
Of Course, I Do Not Believe In Having Everyone Who Is A Liberal Called A Communist, Or Everyone Who Is Conservative Called A Fascist.
Believe
Conservative
Communist
Tomorrow Is A Mystery. Today Is A Gift. That Is Why It Is Called The Present.
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
Keep Us At Tasks Too Hard For Us That We May Be Driven To Thee For Strength.
Tasks
May
Driven
You Should Always Own A Black Dress Because No One Ever Remembers A Black Dress.
Black
Dresses
Remember
A Candle Can Bring Light To A Dungeon But It Can Also Be Used To Light A Deadly Marijuana Cigarette.
Marijuana
Light
Dungeons
I Received A Most Amusing Postcard The Other Morning. Unfortunately, It Was Not Signed In A Readable Manner So I Cannot Answer It Privately. But It Comes From Moblie, Ala., And Says: 'dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You Have Not Answered My Question, The Amount Of Negro Blood You Have In Your Veins, If Any.' I Am Afraid None Of Us Know How Much Nor What Kind Of Blood We Have In Our Veins, Since Chemically It Is All The Same. And Most Of Us Cannot Trace Our Ancestry More Than A Few Generations.
Morning
Blood
Racism
More People Are Ruined By Victory, I Imagine, Than Be Defeat.
Inspirational
People
Victory
Success Must Include Two Things: The Development Of An Individual To His Utmost Potentiality And A Contribution Of Some Kind To One's World.
Two
Development
World
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
If Many Of Our Young People Have Lost The Excitement Of The Early Settlers, Who Had A Country To Explore And Develop, It Is Because No One Remembers To Tell Them That The World Has Never Been So Challenging, So Exciting... Perhaps The Older Generation Is Often To Blame With Its Cautious Warning: “take A Job That Will Give You Security, Not Adventure.” But I Say To The Young: “do Not Stop Thinking Of Life As An Adventure. You Have No Security Unless You Can Live Bravely, Excitingly, And Imaginatively; Unless You Can Choose A Challenge Instead Of A Competence.
Country
Jobs
Adventure
You Can't Move So Fast That You Try To Change The Mores Faster Than People Can Accept It. That Doesn't Mean You Do Nothing, But It Means That You Do The Things That Need To Be Done According To Priority.
Inspirational
Change
Moving
To Leave The World Richer—that Is The Ultimate Success.
World
Ultimate Success
Ultimate
There Is A Widespread Understanding Among The People Of This Nation, And Probably Among The People Of The World, That There Is No Safety Except Through The Prevention Of War.
War
People
Safety
If You Lose Money You Lose Much, If You Lose Friends You Lose More, If You Lose Faith You Lose All.
Friends
Faith
Spiritual
It Is So Much Easier To Be Enthusiastic Than To Reason!
Enthusiasm
Reason
Easier
The Word Communist, Of Course, Has Become A Rallying Cry For Certain People Here Just As The Word Jew Was In Hitler's Germany, A Way Of Arousing Emotion Without Engendering Thought.
Rallying Cry
People
Germany
If You Have Any Interests You Can Gain A Wider Audience For Those Interests While The Goldfish Bowl Is Yours!
Political
Goldfish
Politics
I Have A Great Objection To Seeing Anyone, Particularly Anyone Whom I Care About, Lose His Self-control.
Self
Care
Objections
A Great Deal Of Fear Is A Result Of Just “not Knowing.” We Do Not Know What Is Involved In A New Situation. We Do Not Know Whether We Can Deal With It. The Sooner We Learn What It Entails, The Sooner We Can Dissolve Our Fear.
Inspirational
Knowing
Courageous
It Is Always Easier To Do Nothing Than To Try A New Line Of Action.
Trying
Lines
Action
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
If You Must Compromise, Compromise Up.
Inspirational
Compromise
Ifs
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.
Confidence
Office
President
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.
Past
People
Mets
True Hospitality Consists Of Giving The Best Of Yourself To Your Guests.
Giving
Guests
Hospitality
People Can Only Make You Inferior With Your Consent.
People
Consent
Inferiors
Surely, In The Light Of History, It Is More Intelligent To Hope Rather Than To Fear, To Try Rather Than Not To Try. For One Thing We Know Beyond All Doubt: Nothing Has Ever Been Achieved By The Person Who Says: It Can't Be Done.
Wisdom
Intelligent
Light
Lest I Keep My Complacent Way I Must Remember Somewhere Out There A Person Died For Me Today. As Long As There Must Be War, I Ask And I Must Answer Was I Worth Dying For?
War
Long
Dying
Do The Things That Interest You And Do Them With All Your Heart.
Heart
Interest
...conservation Of Land And Conservation Of People Frequently Go Hand In Hand.
Hands
Land
People
It Seems To Me Of Great Importance To Teach Children Respect For Life. Towards This End, Experiments On Living Animals In Classrooms Should Be Stopped. To Encourage Cruelty In The Name Of Science Can Only Destroy The Finer Emotions Of Affection And Sympathy, And Breed An Unfeeling Callousness In The Young Towards Suffering In All Living Creatures.
Respect
Nature
Children
Spiritual Leadership Should Remain Spiritual Leadership And The Temporal Power Should Not Become Too Important In Any Church.
Leadership
Spiritual
Women
The Family Is The Natural And Fundamental Group Unit Of Society And Is Entitled To Protection By Society And The State.
Society
Groups
Fundamentals
Happiness Is Not A Goal; It Is A By-product.
Happiness
Success
Happy
Old Age Has Deformities Enough Of Its Own. It Should Never Add To Them The Deformity Of Vice.
Funny Relationship
Age
Vices
It Takes As Much Energy To Wish As It Does To Plan.
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
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.
Country
Women
Believe
About The Only Value The Story Of My Life May Have Is To Show That One Can, Even Without Any Particular Gifts, Overcome Obstacles That Seem Insurmountable If One Is Willing To Face The Fact That They Must Be Overcome.
Overcoming
Stories
May
When You Cease To Make A Contribution, You Begin To Die.
Inspirational
Life
Happiness
Criticism ... Makes Very Little Dent Upon Me, Unless I Think There Is Some Real Justification And Something Should Be Done.
Real
Thinking
Criticism
To Handle Yourself, Use Your Head; To Handle Others, Use Your Heart. Anger Is Only One Letter Short Of Danger. If Someone Betrays You Once, It Is His Fault; If He Betrays You Twice, It Is Your Fault. Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People. He Who Loses Money, Loses Much; He Who Loses A Friend, Loses Much More; He Who Loses Faith, Loses All.
Heart
Average
Ideas
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
Hate And Force Cannot Be In Just A Part Of The World Without Having An Effect On The Rest Of It.
Peace
Hate
Political
There Are No Have-to's, Just Choices
Inspirational
Choices
Courageous
One Of The Blessings Of Age Is To Learn Not To Part On A Note Of Sharpness, To Treasure The Moments Spent With Those We Love, And To Make Them Whenever Possible Good To Remember, For Time Is Short.
Blessing
Age
Treasure
One Has To Live In Washington To Know What A City Of Rumors It Is.
Cities
Rumor
Knows
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 Any Attention To You. It's Your Attention To Yourself That Is So Stultifying. But You Have To Disregard Yourself As Completely As Possible. If You Fail The First Time Then You'll Just Have To Try Harder The Second Time. After All, There's No Real Reason Why You Should Fail. Just Stop Thinking About Yourself.
Real
Heart
Thinking
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.
Strength
Country
Believe
There Is Not Human Being From Whom We Cannot Learn Something If We Are Interested Enough To Dig Deep.
Enough
Dig Deep
Humans
What We Need In The World Is Manners ... I Think That If, Instead Of Preaching Brotherly Love, We Preached Good Manners, We Might Get A Little Further. It Sounds Less Righteous And More Practical.
Thinking
Good Man
World
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
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.
Inspiring
Children
Home
Courage Is Exhilarating.
Inspirational
Courageous
Exhilarating
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.
Country
War
Thinking
All Human Beings Have Failings, All Human Beings Have Needs And Temptations And Stresses. Men And Women Who Live Together Through Long Years Get To Know One Another's Failings; But They Also Come To Know What Is Worthy Of Respect And Admiration In Those They Live With And In Themselves. If At The End One Can Say, This Man Used To The Limit The Powers That God Granted Him; He Was Worthy Of Love And Respect And Of The Sacrifices Of Many People, Made In Order That He Might Achieve What He Deemed To Be His Task, Then That Life Has Been Lived Well And There Are No Regrets.
Love
Regret
Stress
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.
Decision
Political
Apathy
Mozart, Who Was Buried In A Pauper’s Grave, Was One Of The Greatest Successes We Know Of, A Man Who In His Early Thirties Had Poured Out His Inexhaustible Gift Of Music, Leaving The World Richer Because He Had Passed That Way. To Leave The World Richer—that Is The Ultimate Success.
Inspirational
Men
Leaving
Beautiful Old People Are Works Of Art.
Beautiful
Art
Nursing
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
The Freedom Of Man, I Contend, Is The Freedom To Eat.
Men
Hunger
So I Took An Interest In Politics, But I Don't Know Whether I Enjoyed It! It Was A Wife's Duty To Be Interested In Whatever Interested Her Husband, Whether It Was Politics, Books, Or A Particular Dish For Dinner.
Husband
Book
Wife
Power Corrupts. Knowledge Is Power. Study Hard. Be Evil.
Learning
Knowledge And Power
Evil
The Battle For The Individual Rights Of Women Is One Of Long Standing And None Of Us Should Countenance Anything Which Undermines It.
Rights
Long
Political
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
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
Anger Is One Letter Short Of Danger.
Inspirational
Positive
Wise
We Stand Today At The Threshold Of A Great Event Both In The Life Of The United Nations And In The Life Of Mankind. This Declaration May Well Become The International Magna Carta For All Men Everywhere. We Hope Its Proclamation By The General Assembly Will Be An Event Comparable To The Proclamation In 1789 [of The French Declaration Of The Rights Of Man], The Adoption Of The Bill Of Rights By The People Of The U.s., And The Adoption Of Comparable Declarations At Different Times In Other Countries.
Country
Men
Rights
Remember, No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Being Related To You And Repeatedly Questioning Why You're In Nonprofit.
Questioning Why
Nonprofits
Remember
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.
Strong Women
Empowering
Curiosity
No One Can Move Without Some Leadership.
Moving
So, After All, We Are But Puppets, Creatures Of Our Fate, Not Commanding It But Being Molded By It.
Fate
Puppets
Creatures
True Patriotism Springs From A Belief In The Dignity Of The Individual, Freedom And Equality Not Only For Americans But For All People On Earth, Universal Brotherhood And Good Will, And A Constant And Earnest Striving Toward The Principles And Ideals On Which This Country Was Founded.
Country
Spring
Patriotic
The More We Simplify Our Material Needs The More We Are Free To Think Of Other Things.
Spiritual
Thinking
Needs
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.
Friendship
Stress
Sorrow
Usefulness, Whatever Form It May Take, Is The Price We Should Pay For The Air We Breathe And The Food We Eat And The Privilege Of Being Alive.
Air
Alive
May
We Have Reached A Point Today Where Labor-saving Devices Are Good Only When They Do Not Throw The Worker Out Of His Job.
Jobs
Saving
Today
All Of Life Is A Constant Education.
Inspiring
Education
Learning
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.
Mean
Thinking
Mold
Caring Comes From Being Able To Put Yourself In The Position Of The Other Person.
Caring
Able
Position
Anyone Who Thinks Must Think Of The Next War As They Would Of Suicide.
Suicide
War
Thinking
Philosophy Is Not Best Expressed In Words; It Is Expressed In The Choices One Makes.
Being Yourself
Philosophy
Inspiration
The Mobilization Of World Opinion And Methods Of Negotiation Should Be Developed And Used By Every Nation In Order To Strengthen The United Nations.
Order
World
Opinion
Probably The Happiest Period In Life Most Frequently Is In Middle Age, When The Eager Passions Of Youth Are Cooled, And The Infirmities Of Age Not Yet Begun; As We See That The Shadows, Which Are At Morning And Evening So Large, Almost Entirely Disappear At Midday.
Good Morning
Passion
Shadow
To Appear To Be On The Inside And Know More Than Others About What Is Going On Is A Great Temptation For Most People. It Is A Rare Person Who Is Willing To Seem To Know Less Than He Does ... Somehow, People Seem To Feel That It Is Belittling To Their Importance Not To Know More Than Other People.
Knowledge
Humility
Rare Person
Somehow We Must Be Able To Show People That Democracy Is Not About Words, But Action.
People
Democracy
Able
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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