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" What you don't do can be a destructive force. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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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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" It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. "

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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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