“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Category: life
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“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Category: life
Tags: life, Eleanor Roosevelt
“Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.”
— Annie Lennox
Author: Annie Lennox
Category: women
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“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Category: nature
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“China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.”
— Malcolm Turnbull
Author: Malcolm Turnbull
Category: leadership
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“I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.”
— David Hobson
Author: David Hobson
Category: patience
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“We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.”
— Ralph Neas
Author: Ralph Neas
Category: legal
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“For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.”
— Thomas Mann
Author: Thomas Mann
Category: positive
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“I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.”
— Eddie Izzard
Author: Eddie Izzard
Category: religion
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“The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.”
— Ralph Peters
Author: Ralph Peters
Category: technology
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“God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Category: truth
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“Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.”
— David Frum
Author: David Frum
Category: technology
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