"The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals."

-- James Martineau

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“That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in general is to her credit, although it tended, as many people thought, to just be overdone to the point where it gave rise to this crack that she regarded the whole world as one vast slum project”
“Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.”
“My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.”

Source : Laurie Beth Jones (1998). “Grow Something Besides Old: Seeds for a Joyful Life”
“I don't look forward to the day because I don't like to see guys get traded that I like, or other guys. I didn't want to get traded from the Islanders but then when I did, reality set in that I'd been traded. It's a wild day. It's a crazy day.”
“To me, my Dad's the greatest guy - next to Jesus Christ - who ever walked this planet. He's been that outstanding male role model in my life. And he's still the same guy I grew up around, very conscious of the image he sets forth. As he would say, 'Wouldn't do anything behind your back that I wouldn't do to your face.'”
“You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.”
“The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.”
“My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.”

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