I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDYMy father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
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Money doesn’t give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.
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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.
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Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father’s time, a politician’s home was still his castle.
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As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.
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Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.
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It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
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I am just an old-fashioned girl.
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My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
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