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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt?
→ One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
→ Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
→ People will forget the things you do, and people will forget the things you say. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
→ Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
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→ When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
→ Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
→ Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
→ The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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Select the quotation attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt.
→ Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
→ If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
→ People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
→ The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
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One of these may be attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. Which one?
→ You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
→ Never hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.
→ The giving of love is an education in itself.
→ Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
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Which one of these belongs to Eleanor Roosevelt?
→ The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
→ Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
→ A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
→ It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Eleanor Roosevelt?
→ Thinking is learning all over again how to see directing ones consciousness making of every image a privileged place.
→ Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
→ A good friend will always stab you in the front.
→ We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt.
→ Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
→ Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.
→ The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
→ Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Eleanor Roosevelt. Which one?
→ If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
→ Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
→ Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
→ The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Eleanor Roosevelt?
→ A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
→ The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
→ Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
→ Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt.
→ No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
→ Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
→ An optimist finds an opportunity in every difficulty; a pessimist finds a difficulty in every opportunity.
→ Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
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Looks like Eleanor Roosevelt is the author of one of these.
→ Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
→ I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
→ Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
→ Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Eleanor Roosevelt.
→ People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
→ The body says what words cannot.
→ Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
→ Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
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Which one should be attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt?
→ Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
→ The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
→ Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
→ Go, and never darken my towels again.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Eleanor Roosevelt?
→ Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
→ Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
→ Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
→ Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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→ Do one thing every day that scares you.
→ The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
→ The commonest falsehood is that by which one deceives oneself. The deception of others is a relatively exceptional case.
→ A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Eleanor Roosevelt.
→ No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
→ The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
→ Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
→ The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Eleanor Roosevelt.
→ Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
→ The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
→ Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
→ The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Eleanor Roosevelt?
→ Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.
→ It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.
→ Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
→ My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Eleanor Roosevelt. Pick one.
→ You always admire what you really don't understand.
→ Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
→ In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
→ The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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Guess the right quote, which belongs to Eleanor Roosevelt.
→ The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
→ You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
→ A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that the student must discover for himself.
→ You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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