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«Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Ambition
| Keywords:
despicable, pitiless
«Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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Almighty, peoples, point out, the Almighty, The Building
«All of life is a constant education.»
«Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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add to, deformities, deformity
«What is to give light must endure the burning.»
«For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Confidence,
Presidency,
Women
| Keywords:
for instance, fulfill, functions, instance, slightest
«Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church»
«We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
callow, competently, hesitate, machinery, positions
«Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Decision
| Keywords:
dominated by, originated, or so, without expression
«If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
bowl, goldfish, goldfish bowl, wider
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