"No human being can ever "own" another, whether……" — Eleanor Roosevelt
"No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this."
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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 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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