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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Grateful

“Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.”

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Courageous

“I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.”

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Peaceful

“I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.”

Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Courageous

“I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.”

Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Spiritual

“Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything else, the ability to put into words what his people felt so that he could always lead them. And my own husband I think had great patience, which you need in a democracy because you have to come to do fundamental things, you have to have the patience to have people educated; and then I think he had a deep interest in human beings as human beings.”

Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Spiritual

“I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.”

Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Courageous

“I think that in great crises you need to have deep rooted convictions and I have a feeling from the kind of campaigns that I have watched Mr. Nixon in in the past that his convictions are not very strong.”

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ET Nostalgic

“I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I am remembering,Always in vain. I cannot like the scent,Yet I would rather give up others more sweet,With no meaning, than this bitter one.”

Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Funny

“My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.”

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Philosophical

“Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.”

Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Philosophical

“The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.”

Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Philosophical

“The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.”

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Dan Stevens Actor
Funny

“I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.”

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Dan Stevens Actor
Hopeful

“I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.”

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Dan Wells Author
Anxious

“Fear is a ... it's a weird thing, when you think about it. People are only afraid of other things, they're never afraid of themselves.”

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Dan Wells Author
Spiritual

“I'm not scared anymore, I just ... I don't know. I think it's because I saw someone else, someone behind your face, like you'd taken off a mask. It was still you, but it wasn't. And I don't think that person is going to hurt me, or Marci, or anybody else, but ... I guess the thing is that I don't know anything about that person. At all. And that's what scares me more than anything - that there could be two people, so different, and one of them so secret.”

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Dan Wells Author
Philosophical

“If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.”

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Dan Wells Author
Funny

“I've never been this wet in my life, " said Kira. "Even immersed in a bathtub I swear I was dryer than I am now. " "Look on the bright side, " said Marcus. Kira waited. "This is the point at which you would traditionally suggest a bright side. " "I've never been a real traditional guy," said Marcus. "Besides, I'm not saying I know a bright side, I just think this would be a great time to look at one.”

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Dan Wells Author
Confident

“Here was something that I did all the time, and thought nothing of it, and it turns out the rest of the world thinks it's completely reprehensible. That's when I knew I needed to change, so I started making rules. The first one was; Don't mess with animals.”