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What Counts, In The Long Run, Is Not What You Read; It Is What You Sift Through Your Own Mind; It Is The Ideas And Impressions That Are Aroused In You By Your Reading. It Is The Ideas Stirred In Your Own Mind, The Ideas Which Are A Reflection Of Your Own Thinking, Which Make You An Interesting Person

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What Counts, In The Long Run, Is Not What You Read; It Is What You Sift Through Your Own Mind; It Is The Ideas And Impressions That Are Aroused In You By Your Reading. It Is The Ideas Stirred In Your Own Mind, The Ideas Which Are A Reflection Of Your Own Thinking, Which Make You An Interesting Person

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

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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.

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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.

You In The Unions Do Not Yet Represent All Of Labor. But I Hope Some Day You Will, Because I Believe That It Is Through Strength, Through The Fact That People Who Know What People Need Are Working To Make This Country A Better Place For All People, That We Will Help The World To Accept Our Leadership And Understand That, Under Our Form Of Government And Through Our Way Of Life, We Have Something To Offer Them.

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

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How Can We Be Such Fools As To Go On Senselessly Taking Human Life In This Way? Why The Women In Every Nation Do Not Rise Up And Refuse To Bring Children Into A World Of This Kind Is Beyond My Understanding.

Women Are Like Teabags. We Don't Know Our True Strength Until We Are In Hot Water!

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We Are Given In Our Newspapers And On Tv And Radio Exactly What We, The Public, Insist On Having, And This Very Frequently Is Mediocre Information And Mediocre Entertainment.

Sometimes It Is Extremely Good For You To Forget That There Is Anything In The World Which Needs To Be Done, And To Do Some Particular Thing That You Want To Do. Every Human Being Needs A Certain Amount Of Time In Which He Can Be Peaceful.

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

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

The Only Joy In This Hard Life Is Serving Others.

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Life Was Meant To Be Lived.

Inspirational Life

Were Meant To Be

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Work Is Always An Antidote To Depression.

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.

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

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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?

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Questioning Why

You Must Do The Things You Think You Cannot Do.

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I Never Waste Time Looking Back.

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

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Nothing We Learn In This World Is Ever Wasted.

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I Do Not Want Church Groups Controlling The Schools Of Our Country. They Must Remain Free.

The Important Thing Is Neither Your Nationality Nor The Religion You Professed, But How Your Faith Translated Itself In Your Life.

Important Things

There Is In Every Country An Antipathy To The Foreigner.

Do One Thing Everyday That Scares You. Those Small Things That Make Us Uncomfortable Help Us Build Courage To Do The Work We Do.

I'm So Glad I Never Feel Important, It Does Complicate Life!

The Purpose Of Life Is To Live It, To Taste Experience To The Utmost, To Reach Out Eagerly And Without Fear For Newer And Richer Experience.

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

One Of The Best Ways Of Enslaving A People Is To Keep Them From Education.

To Leave The World Richer—that Is The Ultimate Success.

Ultimate Success

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

I Believe That Anyone Can Conquer Fear By Doing The Things He Fears To Do.

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Courage Is More Exhilarating Than Fear And In The Long Run It Is Easier. We Do Not Have To Become Heroes Over Night. Just A Step At A Time, Meeting Each Thing That Comes Up, Seeing It Is Not As Dreadful As It Appeared, Discovering We Have The Strength To Stare It Down.

I'm Enormously Interested In Freedom And Retaining The Right To Have Whatever Economy We Want And To Shape It As We Want And A Having Sufficient Democracy So That The People Actually Hold Their Government In Their Own Hands.

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Everyone Has The Right To Work, To Free Choice Of Employment, To Just And Favorable Conditions Of Work And To Protection Against Unemployment.

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.

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

We Will Never Have Peace Without Friendship Around The World.

Around The World

It Is Always Easier To Do Nothing Than To Try A New Line Of Action.

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.

The Greatest Luxury I Know Is Sitting Up Reading In Bed.

All Human Beings Are Born Free And Equal In Dignity And Rights.

No One Can Move Without Some Leadership.

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

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Of All The Nations In The Western World, The United States, With The Most Money And The Most Time, Has The Fewest Readers Of Books Per Capita. This Is An Incalculable Loss. This, Too, Is One Of The Few Civilized Nations In The World Which Is Unable To Support A Single Magazine Devoted Solely To Books.

Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You.

The Word Liberal Comes From The Word Free. We Must Cherish And Honor The Word Free Or It Will Cease To Apply To Us.

In Business Courtesy And Efficiency Have A Symbiotic Relationship.

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The Only Things One Can Admire At Length Are Those One Admires Without Knowing Why.

I Think We Ought To Impress On Both Our Girls And Boys That Successful Marriages Require Just As Much Work, Just As Much Intelligence And Just As Much Unselfish Devotion, As They Give To Any Position They Undertake To Fill On A Paid Basis.

The Bible Illustrated By Dore Occupied Many Of My Hours - And I Think Probably Gave Me Many Nightmares.

This Is Not A Time When Women Should Be Patient. We Are In A War And We Need To Fight It With All Our Ability And Every Weapon Possible. Women Pilots, In This Particular Case, Are A Weapon Waiting To Be Used.

Staying Aloof Is Not A Solution, It Is A Cowardly Evasion.

One Of The Best Ways Of Enslaving A People Is To Keep Them From Education... The Second Way Of Enslaving A People Is To Suppress The Sources Of Information, Not Only By Burning Books But By Controlling All The Other Ways In Which Ideas Are Transmitted.

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.

Many People Will Walk In And Out Of Your Life, But Only True Friends Will Leave Footprints In Your Heart

It Takes Courage To Love, But Pain Through Love Is The Purifying Fire Which Those Who Love Generously Know. We All Know People Who Are So Much Afraid Of Pain That They Shut Themselves Up Like Clams In A Shell And, Giving Out Nothing, Receive Nothing And Therefore Shrink Until Life Is A Mere Living Death.

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.

I Could Not At Any Age Be Content To Take My Place In A Corner By The Fireside And Simply Look On.

I Would Not Be Happy Unless I Had Some Regular Work To Do Every Day And I Imagine That I Will Always Feel That Way No Matter How Old I Am.

No One From The Beginning Of Time Has Had Security.

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

If You Approach Each New Person You Meet In A Spirit Of Adventure, You Will Find Yourself Endlessly Fascinated By The New Channels Of Thought And Experience And Personality That You Encounter.

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.

The Hard Part Of Loving Is That One Has To Learn So Often To Let Go Of Those We Love, So They Can Do Things, So They Can Grow, So They Can Return To Us With An Even Richer, Deeper Love.

It Is Better To Light A Candle Than Curse The Darkness.

I Do Not Think I Will Ever Become Deadened, Because I Live In Other People's Lives, I Must Admit There Are Times When It Weighs Medown Because I Can't Do Some Of The Things I Want.

It Seems To Me Of Great Importance To Teach Children Respect For Life. Towards This End, Experiments On Living Animals In Classrooms Should Be Stopped. To Encourage Cruelty In The Name Of Science Can Only Destroy The Finer Emotions Of Affection And Sympathy, And Breed An Unfeeling Callousness In The Young Towards Suffering In All Living Creatures.

We Have Reached A Point Today Where Labor-saving Devices Are Good Only When They Do Not Throw The Worker Out Of His Job.

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

You Never Have A Normal Family Relationship In The White House; It's An Impossible Thing To Have. You Live In A Goldfish Bubble, And You Snatch What You Can For A Personal Life, But You Never Have A Normal, Natural Existence.

Impossible Things

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

Every Time You Meet A Situation You 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 Were Before.

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.

It Isn't Enough To Talk About Peace. One Must Believe In It. And It Isn't Enough To Believe In It. One Must Work At It.

It Seems To Me That I Cannot Afford, As A Self-respecting Individual, To Refuse To Do A Thing Merely Because It Will Make Me Disliked Or Bring Down A Storm Of Criticism On My Head.

Tomorrow Is A Mystery. Today Is A Gift. That Is Why It Is Called The Present.

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.

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.

Strength That Goes Wrong Is Even More Dangerous Than Weakness That Goes Wrong.

Before We Can Make Friends With Anyone Else, We Must First Make Friends With Ourselves.

The Constant Pressure To Bring About Conformity Is A Dangerous Thing.

When It's Better For Everyone, It's Better For Everyone.

People Can Only Make You Inferior With Your Consent.

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

We Need Our Radicals.

When You Know To Laugh And When To Look Upon Things As Too Absurd To Take Seriously, The Other Person Is Ashamed To Carry Through Even If He Was Serious About It.

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.

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

Marriage And The Up-bringing Of Children In The Home Require As Well-trained A Mind And As Well-disciplined A Character As Any Other Occupation That Might Be Considered A Career.

The Fundamental Right Of Freedom Of Thought And Expression Is Essential. If You Curtail What The Other Fellow Says And Does, You Curtail What You Yourself May Say And Do.

If You Must Compromise, Compromise Up.

In The Long Run There Is No More Exhilarating Experience Than To Determine One's Position, State It Bravely And Then Act Boldly.

All The Water In The World Cannot Drown You Unless It Gets Inside Of You.

For All Of Us, As We Grow Older, Perhaps The Most Important Thing Is To Keep Alive Our Love Of Others And To Believe That Our Love And Interest Are As Vitally Necessary To Them As To Us. This Is What Makes Us Keep On Growing And Refills The Fountains Of Energy.

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.

To Me Who Dreamed So Much As A Child, Who Made A Dreamworld In Which I Was The Heroine Of An Unending Story, The Lives Of People Around Me Continued To Have A Certain Storybook Quality. I Learned Something Which Has Stood Me In Good Stead Many Times - The Most Important Thing In Any Relationship Is Not What You Get But What You Give.

Sailors Have The Cleanest Bodies And The Filthiest Minds.

Obedience May Have Its Uses, But It Is No Substitute For Willing, Uncoerced Co-operation.

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

I Believe That All That We Go Through Here Must Have Some Value.

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

This Is A Time For Action Not For War, But For Mobilization Of Every Bit Of Peace Machinery.

Pit Race Against Race, Religion Against Religion, Prejudice Against Prejudice. Divide And Conquer! We Must Not Let That Happen Here.

It Is Harder To Be Philosophical When You Are Young.

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.

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.

There Is Nothing To Fear Except Fear It's Self.

Your Life Is Your Own. You Mold It. You Make It. All Anyone Can Do Is To Point Out Ways And Means Which Have Been Helpful To Others. Perhaps They Will Serve As Suggestions To Stimulate Your Own Thinking Until You Know What It Is That Will Fulfill You, Will Help You To Find Out What You Want To Do With Your Life.

Character Building Begins In Our Infancy And Continues Until Death.

It Is Not That You Set The Individual Apart From Society But That You Recognize In Any Society That The Individual Must Have Rights That Are Guarded.

Franklin's Illness...gave Him Strength And Courage He Had Not Had Before. He Had To Think Out The Fundamentals Of Living And Learn The Greatest Of All Lessons - Infinite Patience And Never Ending Persistence.

For Our Own Success To Be Real, It Must Contribute To The Success Of Others.

Because They Have So Little, Children Must Rely On Imagination Rather Than Experience.

Human Resources Are The Most Valuable Assets The World Has. They Are All Needed Desperately.

If Everything Was In Your Favor, If You Did Not Have To Surmount Any Great Mountains, Then You Have Nothing To Be Proud Of. But If You Feel That You Have Special Difficulties, Then You Must Indeed Be Proud Of Your Achievement.

I Shall Either Find A Way, Or Make One (attributed)

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

It Is Our Freedom To Progress That Makes Us All Want To Live And To Go On.

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.

You Never Know Anyone Until You Marry Them.

Ability Is Not Something To Be Saved, Like Money, In The Hope That You Can Draw Interest On It. The Interest Comes From The Spending. Unused Ability, Like Unused Muscles, Will Atrophy. It Is Tragic To Realize That The Majority Of Human Beings, Even The So-called Educated, Call Upon Only The Smallest Fraction Of Their Potential Capacity. They Leave Many Talents Dormant. They Fail To Develop Their Mental Qualities. They Are Almost Unaware Of The Degree Of Energy Upon Which They Might Call To Build A Full And Rewarding Life.

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.

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

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.

The Morality Of A [political] Party Must Grow Out Of The Conscience And The Participation Of The Voters.

I Have Learned Long Ago To Possess My Soul In Patience And Accept The Inevitable.

Happiness Is Not A Goal, It Is A By-product. Paradoxically, The One Sure Way Not To Be Happy Is Deliberately To Map Out A Way Of Life In Which One Would Please Oneself Completely And Exclusively.

Government Exists For One Purpose: To Make Things Better For All People.

To A Certain Extent I Don't See Any Real Need For Socialism In The United States Immediately, But Things Change And It May Be That There Will Come A Need For Partial Changes In Our Economy.

The Future Belongs To Those Who Believe In The Beauty Of Their Dreams.

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.

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

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

Whatever Come We Have To Meet It.

One Thing Is For Sure-none Of The Arts Flourishes On Censorship And Repression. And By This Time It Should Be Evident That The American Public Is Capable Of Doing Its Own Censoring.

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

The Film Industry Is A Great Industry, With Infinite Possibilities For Good And Bad. Its Primary Purpose Is To Entertain People. On The Side, It Can Do Many Other Things. It Can Popularize Certain Ideals, It Can Make Education Palatable. But In The Long Run, The Judge Who Decides Whether What It Does Is Good Or Bad Is The Man Or Woman Who Attends The Movies.

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