"Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so……" — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change."
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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390 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
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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 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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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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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
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Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting…
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The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.
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