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.
ROSE KENNEDYWhen you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it’s a tremendous responsibility.
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In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.
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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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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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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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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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Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.
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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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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity.
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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
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I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
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Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
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I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.
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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.
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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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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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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
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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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