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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: ignorance
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    Richard Dawkins
    “More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: satisfaction, understanding
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    Saul Bellow
    “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
    ― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
    tags: avoidance, ignorance, illusion, intelligence, self-deception
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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
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    “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
    ― Nicholas Klein
    tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial
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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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  • #7
    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
    “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: beauty, inner-beauty, inspirational
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
    ― Henry Thomas Buckle
    tags: creativity, dreams, gossip, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, paraphrased
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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
    “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
    “Work is always an antidote to depression.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: benevolence, generosity, integrity, moral-courage
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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
    “Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Melina Marchetta
    “Do something that scares you everyday.”
    ― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca
    tags: paraphrase-eleanor-roosevelt, qtd-mia-spinelli
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Courage is exhilarating.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: war
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Be confident, not certain”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
    ~Eleanor Roosevelt”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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  • #31
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: fighting, hurt, inner-peace, peace, permission, strength, trial
    5633 likes



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