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Quotes by First-lady
"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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"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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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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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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"I could not at any age be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never for whatever reason turn his back on life."
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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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"Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important."
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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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"Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be."
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"To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for."
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"I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy."
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"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."
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"More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat."
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"When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die."
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"You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
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"This I know. This I believe with all my heart. 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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"You always admire what you really don't understand."
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"I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity."
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"Do one thing every day that scares you."
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"You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be."
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"I wish that my husband's friends had left him where he is, happy and contented in retirement."
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"When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on."
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"You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility."
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"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."
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"Our children must learnto face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the resultsthe whole democratic systemdepends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves."
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