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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!
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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No, I Have Never

Eleanor Roosevelt
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!
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Atmosphere
Want
Misery
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War
People
Safety
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Guests
Cleaning
Advantage
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Moving
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Admiration
Admire
Admiring
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Fighting
Government
Hands
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People
World
Catchy
It Is So Much Easier To Be Enthusiastic Than To Reason!
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Reason
Easier
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Effort
Childhood
Decision
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Thinking
Giving
People
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Wise
Wisdom
Humans
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Girl
Successful
Thinking
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Thinking
Ideas
White
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Inspirational
Today
Canada Day
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Inspirational
Peace
Men
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Fathers Day
Baby
Successful
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Leadership
Peace
Trying
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England
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Thinking
People
Growth
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Doe
Unexpected
Should
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Hate
Helping Others
Greatness
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Entrepreneur
Growing
Wonder
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Wife
Majority
Politics
One Of The Best Ways Of Enslaving A People Is To Keep Them From Education.
Education
People
Way
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Country
Thinking
People
No One Is All-knowing And Therefore All Of Us Need Both Love And Charity.
Life
Mature Person
Knowing
I Once Had A Rose Named After Me And I Was Very Flattered. But I Was Not Pleased To Read The Description In The Catalogue: No Good In A Bed, But Fine Up Against A Wall.
Funny
Wall
Flower
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Writing
Men
Circles
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Organization
Decision
World
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Husband
Book
Wife
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Rights
Long
Political
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Women
Real
Thinking
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Character
Past
Years
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Past
World
Lessons
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Skins
Thick
Rhinoceros
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Teaching
Practice
Community
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Vision
Would Be
Satisfaction
Every Age Is An Unknown Country.
Country
Age
I Used To Tell My Husband That, If He Could Make Me 'understand' Something, It Would Be Clear To All The Other People In The Country.
Marriage
Country
Soulmate
Everyone Has The Right To Work, To Free Choice Of Employment, To Just And Favorable Conditions Of Work And To Protection Against Unemployment.
Choices
Unemployment
Conditions
In The Long Run There Is No More Exhilarating Experience Than To Determine One's Position, State It Bravely And Then Act Boldly.
Running
Long
States
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
To Most Teenagers, Life Is A Strange Uncharted Land Filled With A Mixture Of New Joys, Intensely Felt, And Painful Confusions For Which They Know No Anodyne.
Teenager
Land
Confusion
Before We Can Make Friends With Anyone Else, We Must First Make Friends With Ourselves.
Inner Peace
Firsts
First Of My Own Personal Requirements Is Inner Calm. This, I Think, Is An Essential. One Of The Secrets Of Using Your Time Well Is To Gain A Certain Ability To Maintain Peace Within Yourself So That Much Can Go On Around You And You Can Stay Calm Inside.
Thinking
Secret
Stay Calm
I Think That In Great Crises You Need To Have Deep Rooted Convictions And I Have A Feeling From The Kind Of Campaigns That I Have Watched Mr. Nixon In In The Past That His Convictions Are Not Very Strong.
Strong
Past
Thinking
Nobody Else Is Going To Do The Things Which Are Yours To Be Done In The World.
Done
World
Spiritual Leadership Should Remain Spiritual Leadership And The Temporal Power Should Not Become Too Important In Any Church.
Leadership
Spiritual
Women
We Must Know What We Think And Speak Out, Even At The Risk Of Unpopularity.
Thinking
Speaks Out
Risk
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.
Country
Believe
Men
What You Don't Do Can Be A Destructive Force.
Choices
Force
Destructive
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
Your Ambition Should Be To Get As Much Life Out Of Living As You Possibly Can, As Much Enjoyment, As Much Interest, As Much Experience, As Much Understanding. Not Simply Be What Is Generally Called A 'success.'
Ambition
Understanding
Should
I Would Not Be Happy Unless I Had Some Regular Work To Do Every Day And I Imagine That I Will Always Feel That Way No Matter How Old I Am.
Matter
Way
Imagine
Life Is Meant To Be Lived.
Life Is
Meant To Be
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
The Term 'young Adults' Which Is So Often Used Today Seems To Me A Misnomer, And One Which, If Taken Seriously, May Lead The Adolescent Into Misunderstanding As To His Nature And His Role In Life. 'young" He Is; 'adult' He Is Not.
Taken
Adults
Roles
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
When You Have Decided What You Believe, What You Feel Must Be Done, Have The Courage To Stand Alone And Be Counted
Inspirational
Believe
Character
I Know That Given Great Responsibility Men Sometimes Change, But Mr. Nixon's Presidency Would Worry Me.
Responsibility
Men
Worry
Think As Little As Possible About Yourself And As Much As Possible About Other People.
Positive
Thinking
People
It Is Not Fair To Ask Of Others What You Are Not Willing To Do Yourself.
Inspirational
Leadership
Loyalty
All Big Things In Human History Have Been Arrived At Slowly And Through Many Compromises.
Compromise
Bigs
Humans
It Is Harder To Be Philosophical When You Are Young.
Philosophical
Youth
Young
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
If It's A Man's Game So Decidedly That A Woman Would Be Soiled By Entering It, Then There Is Something Radically Wrong With The American Game Of Politics.
Men
Games
Would Be
Get Out Of The Way As Quickly As You're Not Needed.
Way
Needed
People Who 'view With Alarm' Never Build Anything.
Views
People
Negativity
Philosophy Is Not Best Expressed In Words; It Is Expressed In The Choices One Makes.
Being Yourself
Philosophy
Inspiration
I Believe That Anyone Can Conquer Fear By Doing The Things He Fears To Do.
Inspirational
Motivational
Fear
The Future Is Literally In Our Hands To Mold As We Like. But We Cannot Wait Until Tomorrow. Tomorrow Is Now.
Future
Hands
Waiting
If Someone Betrays You Once, It’s Their Fault; If They Betray You Twice, It’s Your Fault.
Inspirational
Betrayed
Faults
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
We Women Are Callow Fledglings As Compared With The Wise Old Birds Who Manipulate The Political Machinery, And We Still Hesitate To Believe That A Woman Can Fill Certain Positions In Public Life As Competently And Adequately As A Man. 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. Every Woman Who Fails In A Public Position Confirms This, But Every Woman Who Succeeds Creates Confidence.
Wise
Believe
Men
Sailors Have The Cleanest Bodies And The Filthiest Minds.
Mind
Navy
Body
Life Was Meant To Be Lived.
Strong Women
Inspirational Life
Were Meant To Be
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
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
Make The Most Of What You Have, When You Have It, Where You Are.
Witty
Where You Are
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.
Education
Women
School
Do The Things That Interest You And Do Them With All Your Heart.
Heart
Interest
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
Character Building Begins In Our Infancy And Continues Until Death.
Life
Character
Building
Furnish An Example, Stop Preaching, Stop Shielding, Don't Prevent Self-reliance And Initiative, Allow Your Children To Develop Along Thier Own Lines.
Mom
Mother
Children
What Could We Accomplish If We Knew We Could Not Fail?
Inspirational
Confidence
Courageous
You Get Strength And Courage, When You Stop To Look Fear In The Face.
Running
Courage
Faces
The Only Things One Can Admire At Length Are Those One Admires Without Knowing Why.
Knowing
Admiration
Length
I Do Not Think I Will Ever Become Deadened, Because I Live In Other People's Lives, I Must Admit There Are Times When It Weighs Medown Because I Can't Do Some Of The Things I Want.
Thinking
People
Empathy
I Feel Quite Sure That What The American People Lack Is Knowledge.
People
Feels
Change Means The Unknown.
Moving
Moving Forward
Mean
I Have Learned Long Ago To Possess My Soul In Patience And Accept The Inevitable.
Long Ago
Soul
Accepting
No One From The Beginning Of Time Has Had Security.
Adventure
Security
The Trouble Is That Not Enough People Have Come Together With The Firm Determination To Live The Things Which They Say They Believe.
Determination
Believe
Justice
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.
People
Feelings
Impossible
Love Can Often Be Misguided And Do As Much Harm As Good, But Respect Can Do Only Good. It Assumes That The Other Person's Stature Is As Large As One's Own, His Rights As Reasonable, His Needs As Important.
Rights
Often Is
Important
It's Your Life-but Only If You Make It So.
Life
Ifs
Never Allow A Person To Tell You No Who Doesn't Have The Power To Say Yes.
Life
Strength
Encouraging
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
Perhaps Nature Is Our Best Assurance Of Immortality.
Nature
Immortality
Assurance
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
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
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.
Growing Up
Freedom
4th Of July
Ambition Is Pitiless. Any Merit That It Cannot Use It Finds Despicable.
Ambition
Use
Merit
So, After All, We Are But Puppets, Creatures Of Our Fate, Not Commanding It But Being Molded By It.
Fate
Puppets
Creatures
I Know That We Will Be The Sufferers If We Let Great Wrongs Occur Without Exerting Ourselves To Correct Them.
Ifs
Knows
Sufferers
Do The Things That Interest You And Do Them With All Your Heart. Don't Be Concerned About Whether People Are Watching You Or Criticizing You. The Chances Are That They Aren't Paying Attention To You.
Heart
People
Attention
No Human Being Can Ever 'own' Another, Whether In Friendship, Love, Marriage, Or Parenthood.
Friendship Love
Marriage Love
Parenthood
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
Every Day Do Something That Frightens You.
Fear
You Can't Move So Fast That You Try To Change The Mores Faster Than People Can Accept It.
Moving
People
Priorities
When All Is Said And Done, And Statesmen Discuss The Future Of The World, The Fact Remains That People Fight These Wars.
War
Fighting
People
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
Up To A Certain Point It Is Good For Us To Know That There Are People In The World Who Will Give Us Love And Unquestioned Loyalty To The Limit Of Their Ability. I Doubt, However, If It Is Good For Us To Feel Assured Of This Without The Accompanying Obligation Of Having To Justify This Devotion By Our Behavior.
Loyalty
People
Giving
Pit Race Against Race, Religion Against Religion, Prejudice Against Prejudice. Divide And Conquer! We Must Not Let That Happen Here.
Race
Unity
Prejudice
We Must Do What We Think We Can't Do.
Thinking
What I Have Learned From My Own Experience Is That The Most Important Ingredients In A Child's Education Are Curiosity, Interest, Imagination, And A Sense Of The Adventure Of Life.
Life
Children
Adventure
The American Dream Can No More Remain Static Than Can The American Nation.... We Cannot Any Longer Take An Old Approach To World Problems. They Aren't The Same Problems. It Isn't The Same World. We Must Not Adopt The Methods Of Our Ancestors; Instead, We Must Emulate That Pioneer Quality In Our Ancestors That Made Them Attempt New Methods For A New World.
Dream
America
Quality
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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