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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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The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father
BabiesFamilyFathersHelpfulnessMankind
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live, and that our own success, to be real, must contribute t
Democracy
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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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
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There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
PracticalityThought
There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
Regret
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the sc
Civil rightsEducation
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.
Decision
Understanding is a two-way street.
Understanding
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
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We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.
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We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.
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We will never have peace without friendship around the world.
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We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man.
Women
What is to give light must endure the burning.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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What you don't do can be a destructive force
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When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
FutureWar
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