EREleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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01Undated

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

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02Undated

...Learn to concentrate, to give all your attention to the thing at hand, and then to be able to put it aside and go on to the next thing without confusion. My husband said that being President of the United States meant that you saw more kinds of people, took up more subjects, and learn more about a variety of things than anyone else. But it required complete concentration on the person you were with and on what he was saying. When that person left the room, you pulled down a shade in your mind, and you were ready, with your attention free, for what the next person had to say. You might have to shift from banking to forestry, but each subject had the attention and concentration it required and each, in turn, was put in the back of the mind, ready to be called upon when needed.

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03Undated

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

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04Undated

To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

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05Undated

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

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06Undated

...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves.

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07Undated

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

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08Undated

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 would be curiosity.

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09Undated

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

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10Undated

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

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11Undated

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

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12Undated

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

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13Undated

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

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14Undated

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

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15Undated

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.

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16Undated

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

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17Undated

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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18Undated

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. 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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19Undated

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

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20Undated

Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

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21Undated

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'

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22Undated

When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

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23Undated

I could not at any age be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never for whatever reason turn his back on life.

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24Undated

Change means the unknown.

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