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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
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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Real
Thinking
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Art
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Being In Love
Able
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Done
Felt
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Kindness
Behavior
Bases
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Passion
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Knowing
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Education
Liberty
Cornerstones
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Everyday
Scare
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Patriotic
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Government
People
Purpose
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Morning
Blood
Racism
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Caring
Able
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Youth
Young
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Hands
Waiting
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Thick
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Long Ago
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Real
Home
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Years
Secret
Tragedy
We Must Do What We Think We Can't Do.
Thinking
You Can't Move So Fast That You Try To Change The Mores Faster Than People Can Accept It.
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People
Priorities
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!
Men
Tricks
Wanted
More People Are Ruined By Victory, I Imagine, Than Be Defeat.
Inspirational
People
Victory
I Never Thought Of Achievement. I Just Did What Came Along For Me To Do - The Thing That Gave Me The Most Pleasure.
Work
Achievement
Pleasure
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.
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
Of Course Mahatma Gandhi You Might Say Did Not Have So Much Physical Vigor But He Certainly Seemed To Have Extraordinary Resistance, Which Perhaps Is Rather Different From Physical Vigor.
Different
Vigor
Might
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
A Stumbling Block To The Pessimist Is A Stepping-stone To The Optimist.
Inspirational
Motivational
Attitude
If You Can Develop This Ability To See What You Look At, To Understand Its Meaning, To Readjust Your Knowledge To This New Information, You Can Continue To Learn And To Grow As Long As You Live And You’ll Have A Wonderful Time Doing It.
Inspirational
Long
Looks
I Have Always Felt That It Was Important That Everyone Who Was A Worker Join A Labor Organization.
Organization
Important
Organize
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
Do Not Be Afraid Of Mistakes, Provided You Do Not Make The Same One Twice.
Mistake
Mozart, Who Was Buried In A Pauper’s Grave, Was One Of The Greatest Successes We Know Of, A Man Who In His Early Thirties Had Poured Out His Inexhaustible Gift Of Music, Leaving The World Richer Because He Had Passed That Way. To Leave The World Richer—that Is The Ultimate Success.
Inspirational
Men
Leaving
Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
I Miss You
Romantic
Missing You
No Matter How Plain A Woman May Be, If Truth And Honesty Are Written Across Her Face, She Will Be Beautiful.
Beauty
Beautiful
Truth
The Kind Of Propaganda That Some Of The Religious Groups, Aided And Abetted By The Opposition, Put Forth In That Campaign Utterly Disgusted Me. If I Needed Anything To Show Me What Prejudice Can Do To The Intelligence Of Human Beings That Campaign Was The Best Lesson I Could Have Had.
Religious
Atheism
Lessons
Life's Not About Expecting, Hoping And Wishing. It's About Doing, Being And Becoming. It's About T Learn From The Mistakes Of Others. You Can't Live Long Enough To Make Them All Yourself.
Life
Mistake
Long
All Wars Eventually Act As Boomerangs And The Victor Suffers As Much As The Vanquished.
Peace
War
Suffering
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.
Integrity
Surrender
Standards
Life Has Got To Be Lived - That's All There Is To It.
Life
Happiness
This Too Shall Pass
There Are Practical Little Things In Housekeeping Which No Man Really Understands.
Men
Littles
Little Things
Organize First For Knowledge, First With The Object Of Making Us Know Ourselves As A Nation, For We Have To Do That Before We Canbe Of Value To Other Nations Of The World And Then Organize To Accomplish The Things That You Decide To Want. Anddon't Make Decisions With The Interest Of Youth Alone Before You. Make Your Decisions Because They Are Good For The Nation As A Whole.
Organization
Decision
World
Success Must Include Two Things: The Development Of An Individual To His Utmost Potentiality And A Contribution Of Some Kind To One's World.
Two
Development
World
The Basis Of World Peace Is The Teaching Which Runs Through Almost All The Great Religions Of The World. Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself.
Love
Running
Peace
Every Day Do Something That Frightens You.
Fear
Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People.
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
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
Where, After All, Do Universal Human Rights Begin? In Small Places, Close To Home - So Close And So Small That They Cannot Be Seen On Any Maps Of The World. Yet They Are The World Of The Individual Person...withou T Concerted Citizen Action To Uphold Them Close To Home, We Shall Look In Vain For Progress In The Larger World.
Home
Rights
Progress
I Never Waste Time Looking Back.
Success
Waste
Wasting Time
I Have Learned Long Ago To Possess My Soul In Patience And Accept The Inevitable.
Long Ago
Soul
Accepting
Every Woman In Public Life Needs To Develop Skin As Tough As Rhinoceros Hide.
Skins
Needs
Tough
Old Age Has Deformities Enough Of Its Own. It Should Never Add To Them The Deformity Of Vice.
Funny Relationship
Age
Vices
There Is Not Human Being From Whom We Cannot Learn Something If We Are Interested Enough To Dig Deep.
Enough
Dig Deep
Humans
Courage Is Exhilarating.
Inspirational
Courageous
Exhilarating
You Gain Strength, Courage, And Confidence By Doing The Thing Which You Think You Cannot Do.
Running
Fear
Cancer
I Think That If The Atomic Bomb Did Nothing More, It Scared The People To The Point Where They Realized That Either They Must Do Something About Preventing War Or There Is A Chance That There Might Be A Morning When We Would Not Wake Up.
Morning
War
Thinking
On The Whole Our Armed Services Have Been Doing Pretty Well In The Way Of Keeping Us Defended, But I Hope Our State Department Will Remember That It Is Really The Department Of Achieving Peace.
Way
Remember
Achieve
Nobody Else Is Going To Do The Things Which Are Yours To Be Done In The World.
Done
World
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
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
Sometimes I Wonder If We Shall Ever Grow Up In Our Politics And Say Definite Things Which Mean Something, Or Whether We Shall Always Go On Using Generalities To Which Everyone Can Subscribe, And Which Mean Very Little.
Growing Up
Mean
Political
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
No One From The Beginning Of Time Has Had Security.
Adventure
Security
I'm So Glad I Never Feel Important, It Does Complicate Life!
Life And Love
Honor
Important
There Is Nothing To Fear Except Fear It's Self.
Inspirational
Self
Courageous
I Am Who I Am Today Because Of The Choices I Made Yesterday.
Inspirational
Cancer
Loving Life
You Do The Things That Need To Be Done According To Priority.
Priorities
Needs
Done
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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