Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "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."

Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are t...
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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge...
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back ...
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clea...
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert...
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say
yes.
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A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generousl...
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Understanding is a two-way street.
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Do one thing every day that scares you.
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I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
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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 usefu...
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
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There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so ...
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself
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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, an...
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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals...
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Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confi...
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When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that peop...
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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...
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We will never have peace without friendship around the world.
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Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too...
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Pat was a different person. She asked about the children in the hospital, the food, their medical ca...
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I believe we will have better government when men and women discuss public issues together and make ...
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We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to...
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Great minds discuss ideas, Average minds discuss events, Simple minds discuss people.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself
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If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl ...
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No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be o...
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Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexis...
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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...
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The more the world speeds up the more it seems necessary that we should learn to pick out of the pas...
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he had had an offer for me to do television commercials for an organization that sold margarine. “...
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One curious feature about political reform is that so many people feel it is “disloyal” to attem...
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Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will gi...
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I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any re...
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He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather t...
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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become he...
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We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.
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Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a ...
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Or perhaps one can learn only by one’s own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and...
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether pe...
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don’t be concerned about whether ...
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being acquisitive on a large scale, cannot have value if it is bought at the expense of others.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to really look fear...
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Бъдещето принадлежи на тези, които вярват в красотата �...
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To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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As a people, I am afraid, we tend too often to brush aside with impatience, sometimes with discourte...
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Nadie puede hacer que te sientas inferior sin tu consentimiento
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We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be...
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It’s your life—but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own stan...
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If life were predictable it would cease to be life,and be without flavor
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Only I can let you disrepect me! Eleanore Roosevelt
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When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.
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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.
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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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There is no experience from which you can't learn something.
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If asked, you should state how you feel, how you think. But until asked, it is an intrusion to thrus...
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This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people ...
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is thro...
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
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You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best yo...
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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, t...
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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l...
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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
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I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content t...
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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you...
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Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real de...
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
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Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
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It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, b...
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A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even whe...
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if yo...
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is...
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
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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 u...
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
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I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my fathe...
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing t...
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o...
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other perso...
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[In the 1979 miniseries] Backstairs at the White House, ... Eleanor.
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I think as the century closes draws to a close and we look back on public figures, ... we realize wh...
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Change means the unknown.
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I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for th...
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It is neither unusual nor new for me to have Negro friends, nor is it unusual for me to have found m...
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It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
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I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor...
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Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.
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So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be...
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. An...
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We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a wor...
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you...
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Hick darling...I couldn't say je t'aime et je t'adore as I longed to do, but always remember I am sa...
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I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no head...
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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest ...
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear...
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There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art
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We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, ...
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We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to...
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...
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The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it i...
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We no longer have merely domestic issues. Perhaps the best illustration of this is the question I am...
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we have one weakness that, considering our political maturity as a nation, is rather immature. We co...
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Many of the boys I saw in hospitals are now leading happy and useful lives, but they carry with them...
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If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you ...
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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...Learn to concentrate, to give all your attention to the thing at hand, and then to be able to put...
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The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who hold to the original trad...
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stoppi...
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If you will forget about yourself, whether or not you are making a good impression on people, what t...
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It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely...
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
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Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as...
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People can surmount what seems to be total defeat, difficulties too great to be borne, but it requir...
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Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a ...
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Our Father, who has set a restlessness in our hearts and made us all seekers after that which we can...
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I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was me...
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THE GREATEST GIVE YOU CAN GIVE A CHILD IS AN IMAGINATION
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We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a very real sense, by th...
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ត្រូវចងចាំថាគ្មាននរណាម្នាក់អាចធ្វ�...
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Mulheres são como saquinhos de chá: você nunca sabe o quanto elas são fortes, até colocá-las n...
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There is no human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
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We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the wo...
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Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for...
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One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stop...
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
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There are no have-to's, just choices
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Be confident, not certain
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...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robo...
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Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so c...
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and...
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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
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It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness!
Eleanore Roosevelt
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Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us ...
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A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
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Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena...
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Whatever come we have to meet it.
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It is better to light 1 candle than to curse the darkness.
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A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be on...
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If someone betrays you once, its their fault; if they betray you twice, its your fault.
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific o...
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Actors are one family over the entire world.
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I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside...
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone els...
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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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 h...
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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
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It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of...
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
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I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no head...
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A milestone passed, new things begun, dreams as shining as the sun, a goal achieved, a victory won! ...
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There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...
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Hick darling...I couldn't say je t'aime et je t'adore as I longed to do, but always remember I am sa...
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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
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For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the sl...
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«Vous devez faire les choses que vous vous croyez incapable de faire.»
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In a democratic society we must live cooperatively, and serve the community in which we live, to the...
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When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for ...
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art
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Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you sto...
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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.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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