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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Best Choices Expressed Make Makes Our Philosophy Responsibility Ultimately Words

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Understanding is a two-way street.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Street Two-Way Two-Way Street Understanding

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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Does Energy Much Plan Takes Wish

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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Ask Fair Not Fair Others Willing You Yourself

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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Accept Best Courage Give Important Important Thing Meet Only Thing Whatever You

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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: By-Product Goal Happiness

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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Allow Never Person Power Say Tell Who Yes You

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It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: More Need Vacation Vocation

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Anyway Criticized Feel Heart Right You Your

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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.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Ask Birth Child Could Curiosity Endow Fairy Gift Godmother Most Mother Should Think Useful I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: First Lady

Born: October 11th, 1884

Died: November 7th, 1962

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