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" A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. "
Eleanor Roosevelt
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" Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. "
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" Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. "
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" No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. "
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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. "
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" Understanding is a two-way street. "
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" I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? "
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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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" I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. "
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" The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. "
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" Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. "
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" You must do the things you think you cannot do. "
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" With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. "
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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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" Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. "
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" I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life! "
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Never
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" Actors are one family over the entire world. "
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Over
" 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. "
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" There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. "
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" My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. "
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" Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. "
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. "
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" I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. "
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Then
Live
" What you don't do can be a destructive force. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. "
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