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• People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.
  This is how character is built. -- Eleanor Roosevelt, _My Day_, newspaper column, August 7, 1941...
• If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevel
• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
  -- Eleanor Roosevel...
• I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
  -- Eleanor Roosevel...
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
  -- Eleanor Roosevelt, "This is My Story", 1937...
• Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.
  One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. -- Eleanor Roosevel...
• A 'full' life in my experience is usually full only of other people's demands.
• 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. -- Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)...