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Eleanor Roosevelt has 411 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of…
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Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
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The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they…
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
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Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions,…
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they…
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Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.
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Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
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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…
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Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human…
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Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country. If Horatio…
— Paul Galanti
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Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or…
— Unknown Author
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The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health…
— Waverley Root
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[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam…
— David Frum
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American…
— Manny Farber
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I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy.…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him…
— Rick Perlstein
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