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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.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

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

You Gain Strength, Courage, And Confidence By Every Experience In Which You Really Stop To Look Fear In The Face.... The Danger Lies In Refusing To Face The Fear, In Not Daring To Come To Grips With It. If You Fail Anywhere Along The Line It Will Take Away Your Confidence. You Must Make Yourself Succeed Every Time. You Must Do The Thing You Think You Cannot Do.

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It's Your Life - But Only If You Make It So. The Standards By Which You Live Must Be Your Own Standards, Your Own Values, Your Own Convictions In Regard To What Is Right And Wrong, What Is True And False, What Is Important And What Is Trivial. When You Adopt The Standards And The Values Of Someone Else . . . You Surrender Your Own Integrity. You Become, To The Extent Of Your Surrender, Less Of A Human Being.

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Education Is The Cornerstone Of Liberty.

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Anger Is One Letter Short Of Danger.

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We Must Want For Others, Not Ourselves Alone.

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Life Must Be Lived And Curiosity Kept Alive. One Must Never, For Whatever Reason, Turn His Back On Life.

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The Things You Refuse To Meet Today Always Come Back At You Later On, Usually Under Circumstances Which Make The Decision Twice As Difficult As It Originally Was.

Be Flexible, But Stick To Your Principles.

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

As Life Developed, I Faced Each Problem As It Came Along. As My Activities And Work Broadened And Reached Out, I Never Tried To Shirk. I Tried Never To Evade An Issue. When I Found I Had Something To Do--i Just Did It.

I Know That We Will Be The Sufferers If We Let Great Wrongs Occur Without Exerting Ourselves To Correct Them.

Nothing Has Ever Been Achieved By The Person Who Says, ‘it Can’t Be Done.’

Experience Should Teach Us That It Is Always The Unexpected That Does Occur.

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 Motivating Force Of The Theory Of A Democratic Way Of Life Is Still A Belief That As Individuals We Live Cooperatively, And, To The Best Of Our Ability, Serve The Community In Which We Live.

I Found That Almost Everyone Had Something Interesting To Contribute To My Education.

Something Interesting

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Criticism ... Makes Very Little Dent Upon Me, Unless I Think There Is Some Real Justification And Something Should Be Done.

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

If You Believe That A Nation Is Really Better Off Which Achieves For A Comparative Few, Those Who Are Capable Of Attaining It, High Culture, Ease, Opportunity, And That These Few From Their Enlightenment Should Give What They Consider Best To Those Less Favored, Then You Naturally Belong To The Republican Party. But If You Believe That People Must Struggle Slowly To The Light For Themselves, Then It Seems To Me That You Are A Democrat.

A Woman Is Like A Tea Bag - You Can't Tell How Strong She Is Until You Put Her In Hot Water.

Perhaps The Basic Thing Which Contributes To Charm Is The Ability To Forget Oneself And Be Engrossed In Other People.

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.

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.

Poor Minds Talk About People Average Minds Talk About Events Great Minds Talk About Ideas

I Have A Great Objection To Seeing Anyone, Particularly Anyone Whom I Care About, Lose His Self-control.

...conservation Of Land And Conservation Of People Frequently Go Hand In Hand.

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.

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.

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.

People Grow Through Experience If They Meet Life Honestly And Courageously. This Is How Character Is Built.

If You Have To Compromise, Be Sure To Compromise Up.

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

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If You Must Compromise, Compromise Up.

Justice Cannot Be For One Side Alone, But Must Be For Both.

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Usefulness, Whatever Form It May Take, Is The Price We Should Pay For The Air We Breathe And The Food We Eat And The Privilege Of Being Alive.

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Life Has Got To Be Lived - That's All There Is To It.

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