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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.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

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One's Philosophy Is Not Best Expressed In Words; It Is Expressed In The Choices One Makes. In Stopping To Think Through The Meaning Of What I Have Learned, There Is Much That I Believe Intensely, Much I Am Unsure Of. In The Long Run, We Shape Our Lives And We Shape Ourselves. The Process Never Ends Until We Die. And, The Choices We Make Are Ultimately Our Own Responsibility.

Somehow We Must Be Able To Show People That Democracy Is Not About Words, But Action.

Education Is The Cornerstone Of Liberty.

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I Have Spent Many Years Of My Life In Opposition, And I Rather Like The Role.

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We Must Do What We Think We Can't Do.

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The Encouraging Thing Is That Every Time You Meet A Situation, Though You May Think At The Time It Is An Impossibility And You Go Through The Tortures Of The Damned, Once You Have Met It And Lived Through It You Find That Forever After You Are Freer Than You Ever Were Before. . . . You Gain Strength, Courage, And Confidence By Every Experience In Which You Really Stop To Look Fear In The Face. You Are Able To Say To Yourself, “i Lived Through This Horror. I Can Take The Next Thing That Comes Along.

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To Handle Yourself, Use Your Head; To Handle Others, Use Your Heart.

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Change Means The Unknown.

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Since You Get More Joy Out Of Giving Joy To Others, You Should Put A Good Deal Of Thought Into The Happiness That You Are Able To Give.

Think As Little As Possible About Yourself And As Much As Possible About Other People.

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You Wouldn't Worry So Much About What Others Think Of You If You Realized How Seldom They Do.

Everybody Wants Something.

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If Man Is To Be Liberated To Enjoy More Leisure, He Must Also Be Prepared To Enjoy This Leisure Fully And Creatively.

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

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Something Interesting

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The Labor Movement Has A Great Role To Play In Our Country Today.

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.

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It Seems To Me That It Is The Basic Right Of Any Human Being To Work.

...without Equality There Can Be No Democracy.

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I Think It Is Impossible For One Human Being Really To Know Another Without First Knowing And Being At Peace With Himself.

Anger Is One Letter Short Of Danger.

To Tell The People In The West Not To Use Their Cars Means That These People May Never See Another Soul For Weeks And Weeks Nor Have A Way Of Getting A Sick Person To A Doctor.

Beautiful Young People Are Accidents Of Nature, But Beautiful Old People Are Works Of Art.

Success In Marriage Depends On Being Able, When You Get Over Being In Love, To Really Love....you Never Know Anyone Until You Marry Them.

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Success Must Include Two Things: The Development Of An Individual To His Utmost Potentiality And A Contribution Of Some Kind To One's World.

Always Be On Time. Never Try To Make Any Personal Engagements. Do As Little Talking As Humanly Possible. Never Be Disturbed By Anything. Always Do What You're Told To Do As Quickly As Possible. Remember To Lean Back In A Parade, So That People Can See Your Husband. Don't Get Too Fat To Ride Three On A Seat. Get Out Of The Way As Quickly As You're Not Needed.

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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 ... Such Are The Places Where Every Man, Woman And Child Seeks Equal Justice, Equal Opportunity, Equal Dignity Without Discrimination. Unless These Rights Have Meaning There, They Have Little Meaning Anywhere.

We Will Never Have Peace Without Friendship Around The World.

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Life Is Like A Parachute Jump, You've Got To Get It Right The First Time.

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Comparison Is The Thief Of All Joy.

Anyone Who Thinks Must Think Of The Next War As They Would Of Suicide.

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

This Too Shall Pass

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