Quote #54

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

More from Eleanor Roosevelt

  1. Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
  2. We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity. In the final analysis, a democratic government represents the s…
  3. We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future. Spino…
  4. What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the …
  5. As long as we are not actually destroyed, we can work to gain greater understanding of other peoples and to try to present to the peoples o…
  6. Example is the best lesson there is.
  7. We should begin in our own environment and in our own community as far as possible to build a peace-loving attitude and learn to discipline…
  8. Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

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