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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: courage, inspirational, strength
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: humor, politics, stupidity
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's Memoirs
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: ignorance, regret, stupidity, victory
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
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    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance
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    William Goldman
    “I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: codes, devotion, ignorance, love
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    Hippocrates
    “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
    ― Hippocrates
    tags: ignorance, knowledge, opinion, science
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
    ― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women
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  • #13
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
    tags: confidence
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational, life
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    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.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: adventure, carpe-diem, enjoy-life, experience, inspirational, life, live-in-the-moment, purpose-of-life
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: demands
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, leadership, self-control
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, It Seems to Me: Selected Letters
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspiration, strength, tomorrow
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: motivational
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational, motivational, women
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: contentment, goals, happiness, life, satisfaction
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: eleanor-roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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  • #31
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: individualism, personal-responsibility
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