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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.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
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Suicide
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Thinking
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World
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Giving
Stubborn
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Stress
Sorrow
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Thick
Rhinoceros
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Learning
Knowledge And Power
Evil
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Power
Men
Expression
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Competence
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Inspirational
Depression
Antidote
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Rights
Hands
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Choices
Force
Destructive
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Adventure
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People
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Actors
World
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Forget
Charm
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Children
Abuse
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Ideas
People
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Thinking
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Want
Way
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Decision
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Motivational
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Progress
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Scare
Helping
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Country
War
Sacrifice
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Encouragement
Smoking
Quitting
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Inspirational
Self
Courageous
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Children
Home
Character
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Accomplishment
Political
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Inspirational
Motivational
Happiness
Courage Is More Exhilarating Than Fear, And In The Long Run, It Is Easier.
Running
Courage
Hero
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Inspirational
Betrayed
Faults
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Rights
Dignity
Born Free
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Mother
Children
Giving
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Men
Tricks
Wanted
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Real
Writing
Expression
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Loyalty
People
Giving
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Laughing
Looks
Serious
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Rights
Expression
Essentials
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Thinking
Secret
Stay Calm
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Be Confident
Certain
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Acceptance
Rights
Atmosphere
It Is Harder To Be Philosophical When You Are Young.
Philosophical
Youth
Young
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Priorities
Needs
Done
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Government
Play
Political
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Atmosphere
Want
Misery
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Gossip
Romance
Mixtures
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
It Is Not More Vacation We Need — It Is More Vocation.
Vacation
Needs
Need Sleep
The Only Joy In This Hard Life Is Serving Others.
Joy
Hard Life
Life Is
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.
Life
Happiness
Depression
Everybody Wants Something.
Want Something
Want
I'm So Glad I Never Feel Important, It Does Complicate Life!
Life And Love
Honor
Important
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
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
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
I Have Always Felt That It Was Important That Everyone Who Was A Worker Join A Labor Organization.
Organization
Important
Organize
Most Of The Work That's Done In The World Gets Done By People Who Weren't Feeling All That Well At The Time That They Did It.
People
Feelings
Done
All Of Life Is A Constant Education.
Inspiring
Education
Learning
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
It Is Not Fair To Ask Of Others What You Are Not Willing To Do Yourself.
Inspirational
Leadership
Loyalty
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.
Long
Interesting
Growth
With The New Day Comes New Strength And New Thoughts.
Inspirational
Good Morning
Strength
The Constant Pressure To Bring About Conformity Is A Dangerous Thing.
Pressure
Conformity
Dangerous
I Believe That Anyone Can Conquer Fear By Doing The Things He Fears To Do.
Inspirational
Motivational
Fear
I Believe That All That We Go Through Here Must Have Some Value.
Believe
Belief
I Believe
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.
Democracy
May
Way
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
Every Age Is An Unknown Country.
Country
Age
It Isn't Enough To Talk About Peace. One Must Believe In It. And It Isn't Enough To Believe In It. One Must Work At It.
Peace
Believe
Fidgeting
If You Have Any Interests You Can Gain A Wider Audience For Those Interests While The Goldfish Bowl Is Yours!
Political
Goldfish
Politics
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.
Life
Motivational
Running
There Is No More Precious Experience In Life Than Friendship. And I Am Not Forgetting Love And Marriage As I Write This; The Lovers, Or The Man And Wife, Who Are Not Friends Are But Weakly Joined Together. One Enlarges His Circle Of Friends Through Contact With Many People. One Who Limits Those Contacts Narrows The Circle And Frequently His Own Point Of View As Well.
Writing
Men
Circles
Will People Ever Be Wise Enough To Refuse To Follow Bad Leaders Or To Take Away The Freedom Of Other People?
Wise
People
Leader
The Word Liberal Comes From The Word Free. We Must Cherish And Honor The Word Free Or It Will Cease To Apply To Us.
Honor
Cherish
Cease
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
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
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
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.
Media
Information
Entertainment
All The Water In The World Cannot Drown You Unless It Gets Inside Of You.
Water
World
We Have Come To Accept Bigger And Bigger Things As Meaning Greater And Greater Efficiency, More And More Prosperity And More And More Freedom. The Two Do Not Go Together Of Necessity.
Two
Together
Size
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.
Giving
Use
World
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
Each Time You Learn Something New You Must Readjust The Whole Framework Of Your Knowledge
Inspirational
Something New
Framework
You Never Have A Normal Family Relationship In The White House; It's An Impossible Thing To Have. You Live In A Goldfish Bubble, And You Snatch What You Can For A Personal Life, But You Never Have A Normal, Natural Existence.
White
Impossible Things
House
If You Take Stands In Any Way And People Feel That You Have Any Success In - A Following, Why Those Who Disagree With You Are Going To Feel Very Strongly About It.
People
Way
Feels
I Believe That Anyone Can Conquer Fear By Doing The Things He Fears To Do, Provided He Keeps Doing Them Until He Gets A Record Of Successful Experience Behind Him.
Life
Success
Fear
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.
Integrity
Heart
Positivity
We Don't Become Heroes Overnight." - One Step At A Time, Eventually Discovering We Have The Strength To Stare It Down.
Hero
Steps
One Step At A Time
Once Your Children Are Grown Up And Have Children Of Their Own, The Problems Are Theirs And The Less The Older Generation Interferes The Better.
Children
Generations
Problem
Friendship With Oneself Is All Important.
Friendship
Self Esteem
Love Yourself
I Could Not At Any Age Be Content To Take My Place In A Corner By The Fireside And Simply Look On.
Age
Looks
Aging
America Is All About Speed. Hot, Nasty, Bad-ass Speed.
Bad Ass
America
Hot
Understanding Is A Two-way Street.
Inspirational
Two
Understanding
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.
Men
Memorial
Eras
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
Happiness Is Not A Goal; It Is A By-product.
Happiness
Success
Happy
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
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.
Women
Self
Storm
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
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
One Has To Live In Washington To Know What A City Of Rumors It Is.
Cities
Rumor
Knows
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
It Is Better To Light A Candle Than Curse The Darkness.
Inspirational
Motivational
Leadership
The Morality Of A [political] Party Must Grow Out Of The Conscience And The Participation Of The Voters.
Party
Political
Voters
Our Real Battlefield Today Is Asia And Our Real Battle Is The One Between Democracy And Communism. . . . We Have To Prove To The World And Particularly To Downtrodden Areas Of The World Which Are The Natural Prey To The Principles Of Communist Economics That Democracy Really Brings About Happier And Better Conditions For The People As A Whole.
Real
Women
People
...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
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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