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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
Eleanor Roosevelt
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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