Eleanor Roosevelt
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“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water!” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The giving of love is an education in itself.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Actors are one family over the entire world.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The giving of love is an education in itself.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. – Eleanor Roosevelt
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. – Eleanor Roosevelt
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. -Eleanor Roosevelt
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