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Quotes by First-lady
"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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"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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"The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves."
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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 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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"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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"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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"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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"No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within."
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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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"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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"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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"What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?"
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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
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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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"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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