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Small: If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor
Eleanor Roosevelt
"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: Im so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
Eleanor Roosevelt
"I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other p
Eleanor Roosevelt
"I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: I think, at a childs birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, tha
Eleanor Roosevelt
"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"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision
Eleanor Roosevelt
"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in th
Eleanor Roosevelt
"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"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role
Eleanor Roosevelt
"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war
Eleanor Roosevelt
"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until
Eleanor Roosevelt
"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"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the w
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who i
Eleanor Roosevelt
"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"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway. Youll be damned if you do, and dam
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the par
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along
Eleanor Roosevelt
"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of
Eleanor Roosevelt
"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"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: Actors are one family over the entire world
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Actors are one family over the entire world"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think
Eleanor Roosevelt
"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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Small: I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time
Barbara Bush
"I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time"
Barbara Bush, First Lady
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Small: I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up
Barbara Bush
"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up"
Barbara Bush, First Lady
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Small: Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occ
Barbara Bush
"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others"
Barbara Bush, First Lady
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Small: Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family
Barbara Bush
"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family"
Barbara Bush, First Lady
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Small: Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you
Barbara Bush
"Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that"
Barbara Bush, First Lady
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Small: Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time
Barbara Bush
"Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time"
Barbara Bush, First Lady
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Small: At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict o
Barbara Bush
"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent"
Barbara Bush, First Lady
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