"Experience is a brutal teacher; but we learn.……" — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Experience is a brutal teacher; but we learn. MY GOD, do we learn"
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390 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt has 390 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which 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…
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small…
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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…
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Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of…
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
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Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
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Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married…
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Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown…
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Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of…
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre…
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The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked.…
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