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• One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

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  Running, Philosophy, Believe

  "You Learn by Living" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (Foreword), 1960.

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• Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Water

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• For all of us, as we grow older, perhaps the most important thing is to keep alive our love of others and to believe that our love and interest are as vitally necessary to them as to us. This is what makes us keep on growing and refills the fountains of energy.

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  Believe, Important, Energy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

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  Joy, Hard Life, Life Is

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• The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

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  Dream, America, Quality

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• First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.

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  Thinking, Secret, Stay Calm

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.46, Westminster John Knox Press

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• What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

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  Life, Children, Adventure

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.4, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

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  Love, Inspiring, Teacher

  "Your Teens and Mine".

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• What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

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  Running, Reading, Reflection

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2011). “You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

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  Happiness, Faith, Education

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.258, Columbia University Press

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• I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

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  Life, Self Esteem, Thinking

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 5), 1972.

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• If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because no one remembers to tell them that the world has never been so challenging, so exciting... Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure.” But I say to the young: “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

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  Country, Jobs, Adventure

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• Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

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  Strong, Water, Tea

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• I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

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  Ifs, Knows, Sufferers

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.83, Da Capo Press

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• All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

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  Water, World

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• When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

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  Life, Blow, Rich Or Poor

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

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  Summer, New York, Men

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• There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

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  Inspirational, Self, Courageous

  "2012 Crossing Over: A New Beginning". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

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  Real, Choices, Accountability

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.151, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.

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  Real, Heart, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.32, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

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  Home, Rights, Progress

  Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights, In Your Hands, to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, New York, March 27, 1958.

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• Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

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  Government, People, Purpose

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• It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

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  Respect, Nature, Children

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• Some friends leave footprints in your heart

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  Heart, Two Friends, Friends Come And Go

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• We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

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  Past, World, Lessons

  "Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. xv), 1963.

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