Eleanor Roosevelt: Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over...

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation. . . . To change these traditions . . . would be harmful to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area. If we look at situations which have arisen in the past in Europe and other world areas, I think we will see the reason why it is wise to hold to our early traditions.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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We need our radicals.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact, there are innumerable people who have a wide choice between saving and giving their children the best possible opportunities. The decision is usually in favor of the children.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.