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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.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

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To Leave The World Richer—that Is The Ultimate Success.

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Sailors Have The Cleanest Bodies And The Filthiest Minds.

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Life Has Got To Be Lived - That's All There Is To It. At Seventy, I Would Say The Advantage Is That You Take Life More Calmly. You Know That 'this, Too, Shall Pass!'

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I Believe That It Is A Great Mistake Not To Stand Up For People, Even When You Differ With Them, If You Feel That They Are Trying To Do Things That Will Help Our Country.

We Will Have To Want Peace, Want It Enough To Pay For It, Before It Becomes An Accepted Rule.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Do Not Stop Thinking Of Life As An Adventure. You Have No Security Unless You Can Live Bravely, Excitingly, Imaginatively; Unless You Can Choose A Challenge Instead Of Competence.

The Destiny Of Human Rights Is In The Hands Of All Our Citizens In All Our Communities.

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.

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

Questioning Why

Every Woman In Public Life Needs To Develop Skin As Tough As Rhinoceros Hide.

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.

No, I Have Never Wanted To Be A Man. I Have Often Wanted To Be More Effective As A Woman, But I Have Never Felt That Trousers Would Do The Trick!

The Important Thing Is Neither Your Nationality Nor The Religion You Professed, But How Your Faith Translated Itself In Your Life.

Important Things

Nearly All Great Civilizations That Perished Did So Because They Had Crystallized, Because They Were Incapable Of Adapting Themselves To New Conditions, New Methods, New Points Of View. It Is As Though People Would Rather Die Than Change.

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

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.

Nothing Alive Can Stand Still, It Goes Forward Or Back. Life Is Interesting Only As Long As It Is A Process Of Growth; Or, To Put It Another Way, We Can Only Grow As Long As We Are Interested.

The Bible Illustrated By Dore Occupied Many Of My Hours - And I Think Probably Gave Me Many Nightmares.

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

Democracy Cannot Be Static. Whatever Is Static Is Dead.

The Freedom Of Man, I Contend, Is The Freedom To Eat.

To Undo A Mistake Is Always Harder Than Not To Create One Originally But We Seldom Have The Foresight. Therefore We Have No Choice But To Try To Correct Our Past Mistakes.

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

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 Have Spent Many Years Of My Life In Opposition, And I Rather Like The Role.

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The Only Joy In This Hard Life Is Serving Others.

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

No Man Is Defeated Without Until He Has First Been Defeated Within.

Home-making Today Should Have A Background Of Scientific Training Because Only In This Way Can Real Efficiency Be Achieved. The Average Girl Wants To Be Able To Keep Her House With The Least Possible Strain, And In Order To Do This She Must Have Good Training. This Can Best Be Achieved By Taking A Good Course In Home Economics.

We Do Not Move Forward By Curtailing People's Liberty Because We Are Afraid Of What They May Do Or Say.

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

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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.

We Are Given In Our Newspapers And On Tv And Radio Exactly What We, The Public, Insist On Having, And This Very Frequently Is Mediocre Information And Mediocre Entertainment.

Hate And Force Cannot Be In Just A Part Of The World Without Having An Effect On The Rest Of It.

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.

Friends, You And Me... You Brought Another Friend... And Then There Were Three... We Started Our Group... Our Circle Of Friends... And Like That Circle... There Is No Beginning Or End.

Will People Ever Be Wise Enough To Refuse To Follow Bad Leaders Or To Take Away The Freedom Of Other People?

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

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.

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.

Losing Money Is A Big Loss, Losing Friends Is Greater Than The Loss, Also Lost All Faith Is Lost

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