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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.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

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You Must Do The Things You Think You Cannot Do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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I Do Not Want Church Groups Controlling The Schools Of Our Country. They Must Remain Free.

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

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

Courage Is Exhilarating.

If Someone Betrays You Once, It’s Their Fault; If They Betray You Twice, It’s Your Fault.

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

If You Must Compromise, Compromise Up.

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.

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.

Long Ago, There Was A Noble Word, Liberal, Which Derives From The Word Free. Now A Strange Thing Happened To That Word. A Man Named Hitler Made It A Term Of Abuse, A Matter Of Suspicion, Because Those Who Were Not With Him Were Against Him, And Liberals Had No Use For Hitler. And Then Another Man Named Mccarthy Cast The Same Opprobrium On The Word. ... We Must Cherish And Honor The Word Free Or It Will Cease To Apply To Us.

You Wouldn't Worry So Much About What Others Think Of You If You Realized How Seldom They Do.

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

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

We Don't Become Heroes Overnight." - One Step At A Time, Eventually Discovering We Have The Strength To Stare It Down.

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The Only Joy In This Hard Life Is Serving Others.

There Never Has Been Security. No Man Has Ever Known What He Would Meet Around The Next Corner; If Life Were Predictable It Would Cease To Be Life, And Be Without Flavor.

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.

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

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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.

This Living In A Democracy Is A Problem, Isn't It?

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

We Need Emotional Outlets In This Country, And The More Artistic People We Develop The Better It Will Be For Us As A Nation.

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.

I Am Convinced That Every Effort Must Be Made In Childhood To Teach The Young To Use Their Own Minds. For One Thing Is Sure: If They Don't Make Up Their Minds, Someone Will Do It For Them.

No One Can Insult You Without Your Permission.

Power Corrupts. Knowledge Is Power. Study Hard. Be Evil.

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Pit Race Against Race, Religion Against Religion, Prejudice Against Prejudice. Divide And Conquer! We Must Not Let That Happen Here.

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

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No One Can Move Without Some Leadership.

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No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent.

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Perhaps Nature Is Our Best Assurance Of Immortality.

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

I Never Met Mahatma Gandhi, But, I Think Everyone Felt They Knew Him Even If They Hadn't Met Him.

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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.

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.

It Is Very Difficult To Have A Free, Fair And Honest Press Anywhere In The World. In The First Place, As A Rule, Papers Are Largely Supported By Advertising, And That Immediately Gives The Advertisers A Certain Hold Over The Medium They Use.

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A Society In Which There Is Widespread Economic Insecurity Can Turn Freedom Into A Barren And Vapid Right For Millions Of People.

There Are No Have-to's, Just Choices

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

The Basis Of World Peace Is The Teaching Which Runs Through Almost All The Great Religions Of The World. "love Thy Neighbor As Thyself." Christ, Some Of The Other Great Jewish Teachers, Buddha, All Preached It. Their Followers Forgot It. What Is The Trouble Between Capital And Labor, What Is The Trouble In Many Of Our Communities, But Rather A Universal Forgetting That This Teaching Is One Of Our First Obligations.

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

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.

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

People Who 'view With Alarm' Never Build Anything.

Think As Little As Possible About Yourself And As Much As Possible About Other People.

Each Of Us Has... All The Time There Is. Those Years, Weeks, Hours, Are The Sands In The Glass Running Swiftly Away. To Let Them Drift Through Our Fingers Is Tragic Waste. To Use Them To The Hilt, Making Them Count For Something, Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

It Is Impossible To Be A Cynic If You Live A Good Deal With Young People. Fundamentally, Every Young Person Has A Feeling That The Future Is Going To Hold Something Of Value.

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.

Beautiful Old People Are Works Of Art.

Remember, No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Being Related To You And Repeatedly Questioning Why You're In Nonprofit.

Questioning Why

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.

This Is A Time For Action Not For War, But For Mobilization Of Every Bit Of Peace Machinery.

More People Are Ruined By Victory, I Imagine, Than Be Defeat.

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.

Life Is What You Make It. Always Has Been, Always Will Be.

Today Is The Oldest You've Ever Been, And The Youngest You'll Ever Be Again.

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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.

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Women Are Like Teabags. We Don't Know Our True Strength Until We Are In Hot Water!

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.

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.

There Are Practical Little Things In Housekeeping Which No Man Really Understands.

All Of Life Is A Constant Education.

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.

A Stumbling Block To The Pessimist Is A Stepping-stone To The Optimist.

There Is Not Human Being From Whom We Cannot Learn Something If We Are Interested Enough To Dig Deep.

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.

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.

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The Most Important Word In The English Language Is Hope.

Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You.

Remember Always That You Have Not Only The Right To Be An Individual; You Have An Obligation To Be One.

The Basis Of All Good Human Behavior Is Kindness.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I Could Not At Any Age Be Content To Take My Place In A Corner By The Fireside And Simply Look On.

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.

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

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.

It Is Harder To Be Philosophical When You Are Young.

Everyone Has The Right To Rest And Leisure, Including Reasonable Limitation Of Working Hours And Periodic Holidays With Pay.

Character Building Begins In Our Infancy And Continues Until Death.

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.

Understanding Is A Two-way Street.

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.

It Seems To Me That I Cannot Afford, As A Self-respecting Individual, To Refuse To Do A Thing Merely Because It Will Make Me Disliked Or Bring Down A Storm Of Criticism On My Head.

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.

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.

The Family Is The Natural And Fundamental Group Unit Of Society And Is Entitled To Protection By Society And The State.

Women Are Like Tea Bags: Put Them In Hot Water And They Get Stronger.

I Consider Those Are Rich Who Are Doing Something They Feel Worthwhile And Which They Enjoy Doing.

It Is Better To Light A Candle Than Curse The Darkness.

... 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.

No Leader Can Be Too Far Ahead Of His Followers.

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

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

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.

We Have Reached A Point Today Where Labor-saving Devices Are Good Only When They Do Not Throw The Worker Out Of His Job.

Men Have To Be Reminded That Women Exist.

I Could Never Say In The Morning, "i Have A Headache And Cannot Do Thus And So". Headache Or No Headache, Thus And So Had To Be Done.

What You Don't Do Can Be A Destructive Force.

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

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.

A Guest Is Really Good Or Bad Because Of The Host Or Hostess Who Makes Being A Guest An Easy Or A Difficult Task.

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

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.

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.

Friendship With Ones Self Is All Important, Because Without It One Cannot Be Friends With Anyone Else In The World.

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.

We All Grow Older And We All Have To Live With Ourselves.

You Gain Strength, Courage, And Confidence By Doing The Thing Which You Think You Cannot Do.

To Tell The People In The West Not To Use Their Cars Means That These People May Never See Another Soul For Weeks And Weeks Nor Have A Way Of Getting A Sick Person To A Doctor.

True Hospitality Consists Of Giving The Best Of Yourself To Your Guests.

Work Is Always An Antidote To Depression.

I Don't Know Much About Capitalism, But I Do Know About Democracy And Freedom, And If Capitalism May Change In Many, Many Ways, I'm Not Really Very Much Interested In Capitalism.

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.

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.

Friendship Love

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.

Beautiful Young People Are Accidents Of Nature, But Beautiful Old People Are Works Of Art.

Do What You Feel In Your Heart To Be Right - For You'll Be Criticized Anyway. You'll Be Damned If You Do, And Damned If You Don't.

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

Philosophy Is Not Best Expressed In Words; It Is Expressed In The Choices One Makes.

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.

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.

The Word Liberal Comes From The Word Free. We Must Cherish And Honor The Word Free Or It Will Cease To Apply To Us.

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.

If You Approach Each New Person You Meet In A Spirit Of Adventure, You Will Find Yourself Endlessly Fascinated By The New Channels Of Thought And Experience And Personality That You Encounter.

The Purpose Of Life Afterall Is To Live It.

Purpose Of Life

We Must Do That Which We Think We Cannot.

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.

For All Of Us, As We Grow Older, Perhaps The Most Important Thing Is To Keep Alive Our Love Of Others And To Believe That Our Love And Interest Are As Vitally Necessary To Them As To Us. This Is What Makes Us Keep On Growing And Refills The Fountains Of Energy.

Caring Comes From Being Able To Put Yourself In The Position Of The Other Person.

You Never Know Anyone Until You Marry Them.

My Life Can Be So Arranged That I Can Live On Whatever I Have. If I Cannot Live As I Have Lived In The Past, I Shall Live Differently, And Living Differently Does Not Mean Living With Less Attention To The Things That Make Life Gracious And Pleasant Or With Less Enjoyment Of Things Of The Mind.

Sailors Have The Cleanest Bodies And The Filthiest Minds.

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

Friendship Love

Life Is Meant To Be Lived.

Since Everybody Is An Individual, Nobody Can Be You. You Are Unique. No One Can Tell You How To Use Your Time. It Is Yours. Your Life Is Your Own. You Mold It. You Make It.

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