"If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!"
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"You do the things that need to be done according to priority."
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"...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job."
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"You never know anyone until you marry them."
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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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"All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets."
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"It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life."
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"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."
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"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else."
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"We must preserve our right to think and differ."
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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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"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."
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"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role."
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"All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism."
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"True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests."
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"No leader can be too far ahead of his followers."
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"Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment."
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"The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking."
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
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"It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break."
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