"Staying aloof is not a solution, it is…" — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion."
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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 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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More Aloof Quotes
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He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as…
— Theodor Adorno
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from…
— Walter Savage Landor
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Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking…
— Rajneesh
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Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case…
— Franz Kafka
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There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound…
— Arthur Eddington
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Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if…
— Rajneesh
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Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just…
— Rajneesh
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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.
— Paul Newman
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But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.…
— J D Salinger
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