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We Can No Longer Oversimplify. We Can No Longer Build Lazy And False Stereotypes: Americans Are Like This, Russians Are Like That, A Jew Behaves In Such A Way, A Negro Thinks In A Different Way. The Lazy Generalities - 'you Know How Women Are ... Isn't That Just Like A Man?' The World Cannot Be Understood From A Single Point Of View.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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We Can No Longer

Eleanor Roosevelt

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We Can No Longer Oversimplify. We Can No Longer Build Lazy And False Stereotypes: Americans Are Like This, Russians Are Like That, A Jew Behaves In Such A Way, A Negro Thinks In A Different Way. The Lazy Generalities - 'you Know How Women Are ... Isn't That Just Like A Man?' The World Cannot Be Understood From A Single Point Of View.

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

Someone Once Asked Me What I Regarded As The Three Most Important Requirements For Happiness. My Answer Was: A Feeling That You Have Been Honest With Yourself And Those Around You; A Feeling That You Have Done The Best You Could Both In Your Personal Life And In Your Work; And The Ability To Love Others.

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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.

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There Is A Desire For Progress In The Hearts Of All Men, And It Is The Sense Of Frustration And Inability To Move Forward That Brings Violent Revolution.

Somewhere Along The Line Of Development We Discover What We Really Are And Then Make Our Real Decision For Which We Are Responsible. Make That Decision Primarily For Yourself Because You Can Never Really Live Anyone Else's Lie, Not Even Your Child's. The Influence You Exert Is Through Your Own Life And What You Become Yourself.

The Giving Of Love And Understanding Is An Education In Itself.

As For Accomplishments, I Just Did What I Had To Do As Things Came Along.

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Questioning Why

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

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.

Life Is Meant To Be Lived.

We Face The Future Fortified With The Lessons We Have Learned From The Past. It Is Today That We Must Create The World Of The Future.

If We Want A Free And Peaceful World, If We Want To Make The Deserts Bloom And Man Grow To Greater Dignity As A Human Being - We Can Do It.

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Since Everybody Is An Individual, Nobody Can Be You. You Are Unique. No One Can Tell You How To Use Your Time. It Is Yours. Your Life Is Your Own. You Mold It. You Make It.

More People Are Ruined By Victory, I Imagine, Than Be Defeat.

We Need Emotional Outlets In This Country, And The More Artistic People We Develop The Better It Will Be For Us As A Nation.

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.

Power Corrupts. Knowledge Is Power. Study Hard. Be Evil.

Knowledge And Power

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

I Am Who I Am Today Because Of The Choices I Made Yesterday.

Success Is Not Something That Can Be Measured Or Worn On A Watch Or Hung On A Wall. It Is Not The Esteem Of Colleagues, Or The Admiration Of The Community, Or The Appreciation Of Patients. Success Is The Certain Knowledge That You Have Become Yourself, The Person You Will Meant To Be From All Time. That Should Be Reward Enough.

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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.

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The More We Simplify Our Material Needs The More We Are Free To Think Of Other Things.

I Have Often Thought That Less Is Expected Of The President Of A Great Corporation Than Of An American Wife.

No One Is All-knowing And Therefore All Of Us Need Both Love And Charity.

At Any Age It Does Us No Harm To Look Over Our Past Shortcomings And Plan To Improve Our Characters And Actions In The Coming Year.

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

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

No Writing Has Any Real Value Which Is Not The Expression Of Genuine Thought And Feeling.

It Is Equality Of Monotony Which Makes The Strength Of The British Isles.

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Life Is What You Make It. Always Has Been, Always Will Be.

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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

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...no Matter How Avid They Themselves May Be For Praise And Appreciation, People Are Often Niggardly In Giving It To Others, However Merited It Is.

... The Next War Will Be A War In Which People Not Armies Will Suffer, And Our Boasted, Hard-earned Civilization Will Do Us No Good. Cannot The Women Rise To This Great Opportunity And Work Now, And Not Have The Double Horror, If Another War Comes, Of Losing Their Loved Ones, And Knowing That They Lifted No Finger When They Might Have Worked Hard?

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It Is Not Fair To Ask Of Others What You Are Not Willing To Do Yourself.

There Is In Every Country An Antipathy To The Foreigner.

There Are Practical Little Things In Housekeeping Which No Man Really Understands.

The Choices We Make Are Ultimately Our Responsibility.

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It Is Today That We Create The World Of The Future.

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.

The World Conspires To Help Those Who Are In Love With The Beauty Of Their Dreams.

I Feel Quite Sure That What The American People Lack Is Knowledge.

When Life Is Too Easy For Us, We Must Beware Or We May Not Be Ready To Meet The Blows Which Sooner Or Later Come To Everyone, Rich Or Poor.

It Is Always Disagreeable To Take Stands. It Is Always Easier To Compromise, Always Easier To Let Things Go. To Many Women, And I Am One Of Them, It Is Extraordinarily Difficult To Care About Anything Enough To Cause Disagreement Or Unpleasant Feelings, But I Have Come To The Conclusion That This Must Be Done For A Time Until We Can Prove Our Strength And Demand Respect For Our Wishes. We Cannot Even Be Of Real Service In The Coming Campaign And Speak As A United Body Of Women Unless We Have The Respect Of Men And Show That When We Express A Wish, We Are Willing To Stand By It.

It Is Not More Vacation We Need — It Is More Vocation.

I Never Met Mahatma Gandhi, But, I Think Everyone Felt They Knew Him Even If They Hadn't Met Him.

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.

Long Ago, There Was A Noble Word, Liberal, Which Derives From The Word Free. Now A Strange Thing Happened To That Word. A Man Named Hitler Made It A Term Of Abuse, A Matter Of Suspicion, Because Those Who Were Not With Him Were Against Him, And Liberals Had No Use For Hitler. And Then Another Man Named Mccarthy Cast The Same Opprobrium On The Word. ... We Must Cherish And Honor The Word Free Or It Will Cease To Apply To Us.

People Can Only Make You Inferior With Your Consent.

Too Often The Great Decisions Are Originated And Given Form In Bodies Made Up Wholly Of Men, Or So Completely Dominated By Them That Whatever Of Special Value Women Have To Offer Is Shunted Aside Without Expression.

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!

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

To Be Mature You Have To Realize What You Value Most... Not To Arrive At A Clear Understanding Of One's Own Values Is A Tragic Waste. You Have Missed The Whole Point Of What Life Is For.

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.

Some People Are Going To Leave A Mark On This World, While Others Will Leave A Stain.

Ambition Is Pitiless. Any Merit That It Cannot Use It Finds Despicable.

I Know That Given Great Responsibility Men Sometimes Change, But Mr. Nixon's Presidency Would Worry Me.

You Should Always Own A Black Dress Because No One Ever Remembers A Black Dress.

Each Of Us Has... All The Time There Is. Those Years, Weeks, Hours, Are The Sands In The Glass Running Swiftly Away. To Let Them Drift Through Our Fingers Is Tragic Waste. To Use Them To The Hilt, Making Them Count For Something, Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

Perhaps In His Wisdom The Almighty Is Trying To Show Us That A Leader May Chart The Way, May Point Out The Road To Lasting Peace, But That Many Leaders And Many Peoples Must Do The Building.

Choose A Challenge Instead Of Competence

You Have To Accept Whatever Comes And The Only Important Thing Is That You Meet It With Courage And With The Best That You Have To Give.

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.

I Have Often Felt That I Cheated My Children A Little. I Was Never So Totally Theirs As Most Mothers Are. I Gave To Audiences Whatbelonged To My Children, Got Back From Audiences The Love My Children Longed To Give Me.

There Is A Widespread Understanding Among The People Of This Nation, And Probably Among The People Of The World, That There Is No Safety Except Through The Prevention Of War.

Spiritual Leadership Should Remain Spiritual Leadership And The Temporal Power Should Not Become Too Important In Any Church.

No One From The Beginning Of Time Has Had Security.

If You Have Any Interests You Can Gain A Wider Audience For Those Interests While The Goldfish Bowl Is Yours!

It Has Been A Long Fight To Put The Control Of Our Economic System In The Hands Of The Government.

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

You Get Strength And Courage, When You Stop To Look Fear In The Face.

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

Those Who Attack Always Do So With Greater Fervor Than Those Who Defend.

Of Course, I Do Not Believe In Having Everyone Who Is A Liberal Called A Communist, Or Everyone Who Is Conservative Called A Fascist.

I Can't Tell You How To Succeed, But I Can Tell You How To Fail: Try To Please Everybody.

It Is Harder To Be Philosophical When You Are Young.

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!

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Understanding Is A Two-way Street.

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.

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.

An Economic Policy Which Does Not Consider The Well-being Of All Will Not Serve The Purposes Of Peace And The Growth Of Well-being Among The People Of All Nations.

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