"Love can often be misguided and do as……" — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important."
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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390 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
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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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