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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.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

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I Never Waste Time Looking Back.

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No One From The Beginning Of Time Has Had Security.

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Friendship Love

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I Often Wonder How We Can Make The More Fortunate In This Country Fully Aware Of The Fact That The Problem Of The Unemployed Is Not A Mechanical One. It Is A Problem Alive And Throbbing With Human Pain.

Democracy Cannot Be Static. Whatever Is Static Is Dead.

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It Takes As Much Energy To Wish As It Does To Plan.

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As With All Children, The Feeling That I Was Useful Was Perhaps The Greatest Joy I Experienced.

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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