"experience should teach us that it is..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.
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“Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.”
“When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.”
“I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few”
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“Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.”
“Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.”
“I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.”
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“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.”
“Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.”
“Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.”