This quote is commonly attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, but I have not been able to locate a primary source. Use with caution in academic or professional contexts.
“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.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Example is the best lesson there is.”
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“It was for beauty that the world was made.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“You may be too cunning for one, but not for all.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source