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Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the ro

I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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A woman is like a tea bag – you cant tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Women
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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It isnt enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isnt enough to believe in it. One must work at it. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Peace
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Other Quotes from
Dissent
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Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. – Andrea Dworkin

Category:
Dissent

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves. – George Eliot

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Dissent

Assent — and you are sane — , demur — youre straightway dangerous — , and handled with a Chain — . – Emily Dickinson

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Dissent

I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Dissent

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In the inner city, theres a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. Ive gotta love me more than anybody else loves me. – Mary J. Blige

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Modern mans besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions. – Aldous Huxley

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Truth is a naked and open daylight – Francis Bacon

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When you leave here, don’t forget why you came. – Adlai Stevenson, to college graduates

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Graduation