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Quotes by First-lady
"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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"Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done."
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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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"What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?"
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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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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
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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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"The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe."
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"When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die."
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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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"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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"You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility."
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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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"More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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