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When You 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.'

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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When You 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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I Have Never Believed That War Settled Anything Satisfactorily, But I Am Not Entirely Sure That Some Times There Are Certain Situations In The World Such As We Have In Actuality When A Country Is Worse Off When It Does Not Go To War For Its Principles Than If It Went To War.

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True Hospitality Consists Of Giving The Best Of Yourself To Your Guests.

We All Create The Person We Become By Our Choices As We Go Through Life. In A Real Sense, By The Time We Are Adults, We Are The Sum Total Of The Choices We Have Made.

I Don't Know Much About Capitalism, But I Do Know About Democracy And Freedom, And If Capitalism May Change In Many, Many Ways, I'm Not Really Very Much Interested In Capitalism.

The Word Communist, Of Course, Has Become A Rallying Cry For Certain People Here Just As The Word Jew Was In Hitler's Germany, A Way Of Arousing Emotion Without Engendering Thought.

This Living In A Democracy Is A Problem, Isn't It?

The Separation Of Church And State Is Extremely Important To Any Of Us Who Holds To The Original Traditions Of Our Nation. . . . To Change These Traditions . . . Would Be Harmful To Our Whole Attitude Of Tolerance In The Religious Area. If We Look At Situations Which Have Arisen In The Past In Europe And Other World Areas, I Think We Will See The Reason Why It Is Wise To Hold To Our Early Traditions.

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

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

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

I Have A Great Belief In Spiritual Force, But I Think We Have To Realize That Spiritual Force Alone Has To Have Material Force With It So Long As We Live In A Material World. The Two Together Make A Strong Combination.

Old Age Has Deformities Enough Of Its Own. It Should Never Add To Them The Deformity Of Vice.

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You Must Do The Things You Think You Cannot Do.

I Have Never Felt That Anything Really Mattered But Knowing That You Stood For The Things In Which You Believed And Had Done The Very Best You Could.

There Is In Every Country An Antipathy To The Foreigner.

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

There Never Has Been Security. No Man Has Ever Known What He Would Meet Around The Next Corner; If Life Were Predictable It Would Cease To Be Life, And Be Without Flavor.

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

It Is A Rather Curious Thing To Have To Divide One's Life Into Personal And Official Compartments And Temporarily Put The Personal Side Into Its Hidden Compartment To Be Taken Out Again When One's Official Duties Are At An End.

A Good Leader Inspires People To Have Confidence In The Leader, A Great Leader Inspires People To Have Confidence In Themselves.

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.

About The Only Value The Story Of My Life May Have Is To Show That One Can, Even Without Any Particular Gifts, Overcome Obstacles That Seem Insurmountable If One Is Willing To Face The Fact That They Must Be Overcome.

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.

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.

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

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

Each Generation Supposes That The World Was Simpler For The One Before It.

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.

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

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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.

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.

Terrific Minds Focus On Tips; Average Minds Go Over Activities; Little Minds Talk About People Today.

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

The Leisure Class Is One In Which Individuals Have Sufficient Economic Security And Sufficient Leisure To Find Opportunity For A Variety Of Satisfactions In Life.

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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.

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.

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Friendship With Ones Self Is All Important, Because Without It One Cannot Be Friends With Anyone Else In The World.

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

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.

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

Autobiographies Are Only Useful As The Lives You Read About And Analyze May Suggest To You Something That You May Find Useful In Your Own Journey Through Life.

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

If We Fail To Meet Our Problems Here, No One Else In The World Will Do So. If We Fail, The Heart Goes Out Of Progressives Throughout The World.

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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.

Anyone Who Knows History, Particularly The History Of Europe, Will, I Think, Recognize That The Domination Of Education Or Of Government By Any One Particular Religious Faith Is Never A Happy Arrangement For The People.

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

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True Patriotism Springs From A Belief In The Dignity Of The Individual, Freedom And Equality Not Only For Americans But For All People On Earth, Universal Brotherhood And Good Will, And A Constant And Earnest Striving Toward The Principles And Ideals On Which This Country Was Founded.

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Anger Is One Letter Short Of Danger.

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Never Be Bored, And You Will Never Be Boring.

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

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

We Have To Face The Fact That Either All Of Us Are Going To Die Together Or We Are Going To Learn To Live Together And If We Are To Live Together We Have To Talk.

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.

Perhaps Nature Is Our Best Assurance Of Immortality.

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.

What Could We Accomplish If We Knew We Could Not Fail?

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.

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

Education Is The Cornerstone Of Liberty.

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.

The Very Next Thing You Need To Be Doing Is The Thing That Terrifies You The Most.

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.

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A Stumbling Block To The Pessimist Is A Stepping-stone To The Optimist.

I Feel Quite Sure That The American People, If They Have Knowledge And Leadership, Can Meet Any Crisis Just As Well As They Met It Over And Over Again In The Past.

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

I Wish I Really Knew What The Republican Foreign Policy Has Been. I Don't. I Am A Democrat, And I Really Don't Know What It Has Been.

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

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.

Hate And Force Cannot Be In Just A Part Of The World Without Having An Effect On The Rest Of It.

Democracy Cannot Be Static. Whatever Is Static Is Dead.

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

Do The Things That Interest You And Do Them With All Your Heart. Don't Be Concerned About Whether People Are Watching You Or Criticizing You. The Chances Are That They Aren't Paying Attention To You.

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

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.

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.

I Believe That Anyone Can Conquer Fear By Doing The Things He Fears To Do, Provided He Keeps Doing Them Until He Gets A Record Of Successful Experience Behind Him.

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.

As With All Children, The Feeling That I Was Useful Was Perhaps The Greatest Joy I Experienced.

...so Much Attention Is Paid To The Aggressive Sins, Such As Violence And Cruelty, And Greed With All Their Tragic Effects, That Too Little Attention Is Paid To The Passive Sins, Such As Apathy And Laziness, Which In The Long Run Can Have A More Devastating And Destructive Effect Upon Society Than The Others.

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.

How Hard It Is To Project Oneself Into The Future. We Are Always Prone To Think Of The Conditions Which Are With Us Today As Being Permanent Conditions.

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

You [future First Ladies] Will Feel That You Are No Longer Clothing Yourself, You Are Dressing A Public Monument.

All Human Beings Have Failings, All Human Beings Have Needs And Temptations And Stresses. Men And Women Who Live Together Through Long Years Get To Know One Another's Failings; But They Also Come To Know What Is Worthy Of Respect And Admiration In Those They Live With And In Themselves. If At The End One Can Say, This Man Used To The Limit The Powers That God Granted Him; He Was Worthy Of Love And Respect And Of The Sacrifices Of Many People, Made In Order That He Might Achieve What He Deemed To Be His Task, Then That Life Has Been Lived Well And There Are No Regrets.

I Never Waste Time Looking Back.

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.

When You Cease To Make A Contribution, You Begin To Die.

Campaign Behavior For Wives: Always Be On Time. Do As Little Talking As Humanly Possible. Lean Back In The Parade Car So Everybody Can See The President.

There Is No More Precious Experience In Life Than Friendship. And I Am Not Forgetting Love And Marriage As I Write This; The Lovers, Or The Man And Wife, Who Are Not Friends Are But Weakly Joined Together. One Enlarges His Circle Of Friends Through Contact With Many People. One Who Limits Those Contacts Narrows The Circle And Frequently His Own Point Of View As Well.

I Believe That It Is A Great Mistake Not To Stand Up For People, Even When You Differ With Them, If You Feel That They Are Trying To Do Things That Will Help Our Country.

It Takes Courage To Love, But Pain Through Love Is The Purifying Fire Which Those Who Love Generously Know.

There Is Not Human Being From Whom We Cannot Learn Something If We Are Interested Enough To Dig Deep.

The Freedom Of Man, I Contend, Is The Freedom To Eat.

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

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

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

Unused Ability, Like Unused Muscles, Will Atrophy.

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

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

I Used To Tell My Husband That, If He Could Make Me 'understand' Something, It Would Be Clear To All The Other People In The Country.

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.

Lest I Keep My Complacent Way I Must Remember Somewhere Out There A Person Died For Me Today. As Long As There Must Be War, I Ask And I Must Answer Was I Worth Dying For?

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.

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The Term 'young Adults' Which Is So Often Used Today Seems To Me A Misnomer, And One Which, If Taken Seriously, May Lead The Adolescent Into Misunderstanding As To His Nature And His Role In Life. 'young" He Is; 'adult' He Is Not.

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.

A Mature Person Is One Who Does Not Think Only In Absolutes, Who Is Able To Be Objective Even When Deeply Stirred Emotionally, Who Has Learned That There Is Both Good And Bad In All People And In All Things, And Who Walks Humbly And Deals Charitably With The Circumstances Of Life, Knowing That In This World No One Is All Knowing And Therefore All Of Us Need Both Love And Charity.

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

Never Allow A Person To Tell You No Who Doesn't Have The Power To Say Yes.

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

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.

A Little Simplification Would Be The First Step Toward Rational Living, I Think.

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The Only Joy In This Hard Life Is Serving Others.

If You Must Compromise, Compromise Up.

Everyone Has The Right To Rest And Leisure, Including Reasonable Limitation Of Working Hours And Periodic Holidays With Pay.

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.

Surely, In The Light Of History, It Is More Intelligent To Hope Rather Than To Fear, To Try Rather Than Not To Try. For One Thing We Know Beyond All Doubt: Nothing Has Ever Been Achieved By The Person Who Says: It Can't Be Done.

A Woman Has, First Of All, Her Duties In Their Own Home, And There Are Many Women Particularly When They're Young, Who Can Do An Active Job In Their Community Like Being A Mayor, But Who Cannot Go To Washington Or Albany Or Wherever The Capital Of The State Is. There Are Others Who Can, Can Leave Home, Whose Children Are Older And So Forth. I Think It All Is A Personal Decision.

Nothing We Learn In This World Is Ever Wasted.

Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People.

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.

To Be A Citizen In A Democracy, A Human Being Must Be Given A Healthy Start.

Long Ago, I Made Up My Mind That, When Things Were Said Involving Only Me, I Would Pay No Attention To Them, Except When Valid Criticism Was Carried By Which I Could Profit.

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

When All Is Said And Done, And Statesmen Discuss The Future Of The World, The Fact Remains That People Fight These Wars.

You Never Know Anyone Until You Marry Them.

If We Do Not Pay For Children In Good Schools, Then We Are Going To Pay For Them In Prisons And Mental Hospitals.

I Never Thought Of Achievement. I Just Did What Came Along For Me To Do - The Thing That Gave Me The Most Pleasure.

Change Means The Unknown.

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.

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

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.

Have Convictions. Be Friendly. Stick To Your Beliefs As They Stick To Theirs. Work As Hard As They Do.

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

You Can't Move So Fast That You Try To Change The Mores Faster Than People Can Accept It.

Women Are Like Tea Bags.they Do Not Know How Strong They Are Until They Get Into Hot Water.

The Basis Of All Good Human Behavior Is Kindness.

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

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.

So, After All, We Are But Puppets, Creatures Of Our Fate, Not Commanding It But Being Molded By It.

The War For Freedom Will Never Really Be Won Because The Price Of Freedom Is Constant Vigilance Over Ourselves And Over Our Government.

Libertarian Party

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

Anyone Who Has Gone Through Great Suffering Is Bound To Have A Greater Sympathy And Understanding Of The Problems Of Mankind.

Smearing Good People Like Lauchlin Currie [former Administrative Assistant To President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss And Others Is, I Think, Unforgiveable... Anyone Knowing Mr. Currie Or Mr. Hiss, Who Are The Two People Whom I Happen To Know Fairly Well, Would Not Need Any Denial On Their Part To Know They Are Not Communists. Their Records Prove It.

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

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.

The Mobilization Of World Opinion And Methods Of Negotiation Should Be Developed And Used By Every Nation In Order To Strengthen The United Nations.

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.

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

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.

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.

A Day Out-of-doors, Someone I Loved To Talk With, A Good Book And Some Simple Food And Music - That Would Be Rest.

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.

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.

Basically We Could Not Have Peace, Or An Atmosphere In Which Peace Could Grow, Unless We Recognized The Rights Of Individual Human Beings... Their Importance, Their Dignity... And Agreed That Was The Basic Thing That Had To Be Accepted Throughout The World.

People Who 'view With Alarm' Never Build Anything.

When You Have Decided What You Believe, What You Feel Must Be Done, Have The Courage To Stand Alone And Be Counted

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

Understanding Is A Two-way Street.

We Do Not Move Forward By Curtailing People's Liberty Because We Are Afraid Of What They May Do Or Say.

You Need Not Be Proud Of Me.... I'm Only Being Active Till You Can Be Again--it Isn't Such A Great Desire On My Part To Serve Theworld And I'll Fall Back Into Habits Of Sloth Quite Easily!

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