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Quotations by author » Eleanor Roosevelt
American United Nations Diplomat, Humanitarian and First Lady (1933-45), wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US president. 1884-1962
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For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work for it.
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
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Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.
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Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
Friendship
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
Mind
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Happiness
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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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 saying it, that I go to sleep thinking of you.
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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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I believe we will have better government when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their differing areas of concern for the welfare of their families and their world. Too often the great decisions are
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I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.
War
I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
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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 meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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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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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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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 description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Flattery
I think as the century closes draws to a close and we look back on public figures, ... we realize what a giant Eleanor Roosevelt was.
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I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then 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 useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Gifts
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