Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.


Franklin D. Roosevelt

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A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Tacitus -Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Only the thirsty knows the real taste of water; only the lonely knows the real weight of emptiness!
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
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sometimes . . . the only real thing is now.
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I'm interested in the real world.
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The only real equality is in the cemetery
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Happiness is only real when shared.
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I have only one real hobby - my husband.
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The only real training for leadership is leadership.
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Perhaps my only real expertise, my only talent, is to endure beyond the endurable.
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The only real valuable thing is intuition. -Albert Einstein.
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Interest only is also real popular.
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The one in the movie is not real, but my Casper tattoo is real, and it is my only one.
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It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.
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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
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The only real escape from hell is to conquer it.
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I think that sometimes the only real thing is now.
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Relationship without selfishness is only transitory.
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The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
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The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
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The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
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The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
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The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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The only real laughter comes from despair.
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Being offended is part of being in the real world.
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The telling of stories creates the real world.
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There is no a real beauty, only a beauty. There is no a fake beauty only the ugly.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
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Death is the only fantasy that becomes real for all humans.
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There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
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...brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.
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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
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First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - name...
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We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the v...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties w...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is wheth...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful prote...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
the first war of the 21st century.
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a poverty-ridden old age.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitude...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We should never forge those that did not return,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
greatly impressed.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
It got to a point where I had to get a hair-cut or a violin
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising busi...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent l...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Government run by organized money is the same as government run by the organized mob
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business,...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
I love it--I just love it.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fun...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early wor...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If i...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the f...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he's our SOB
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a s...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT