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Quotes by First-lady
"Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library."
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"I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too."
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"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
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"In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond."
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"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role."
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"I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast."
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"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
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"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
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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."
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"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
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"The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are."
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"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
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"No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."
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"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
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"Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves."
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"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life."
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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."
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"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
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"Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president."
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"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
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"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."
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"We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves " the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal."
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"It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head."
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"America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our otherachievements amount to nothing."
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"I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them."
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"The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything."
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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
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"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
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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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"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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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
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"No one from the beginning of time has had security."
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"Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here."
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"Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist."
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"What one has to do usually can be done."
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"No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within."
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"Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice."
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"If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law."
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"For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
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"No leader can be too far ahead of his followers."
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"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little."
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"If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it."
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"It's your life-but only if you make it so."
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"This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people will say. Sooner or later, you are bound to discover that you cannot please all of the people around you all of the time. Some of t hem will attribute to you motives you never dreamed of. Some of them will misinterpret your words and actions, making them completely alien to you. So you had better learn fairly early that you must not expect to have everyone understand what you say and what you do."
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"Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work and the ability to love others.""
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"It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all."
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"I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life."
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