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" Actors are one family over the entire world. "

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. "

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" People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. "

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" 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. "

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" There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. "

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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 father. "

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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. "

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" It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. "

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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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" With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. "

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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. "

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" Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. "

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" The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. "

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" Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. "

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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. "

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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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" A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. "

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" I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. "

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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. "

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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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" Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. "

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" Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. "

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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 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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" 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. "

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