Margaret Truman Daniel quotes
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“Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.”
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“It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home-it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.”
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“He loved politicians - even Republicans.”
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“He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.”
-- Margaret Truman DanielSource : "On Centennial, Truman Recalled In Washington" by Martin Tolchin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1984.
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“Mother ... considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage full of cobras.”
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“First ladies are doing a lot. But the job remains undefined, frequently misunderstood, and subject to political attacks far nastier in some ways than those any President has ever faced.”
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“No matter how different our First Ladies have been - and as individual women they have ranged from recluses to vibrant hostesses to political manipulators on a par with Machiavelli - they have all shared the unnerving experience of facing a job they did not choose.”
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“The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.”
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“He [Harry S. Truman] loved politicians - even Republicans.”
-- Margaret Truman DanielSource : "On Centennial, Truman Recalled In Washington" by Martin Tolchin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1984.
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“I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.”
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Source : Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.
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Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.151, Baker Books
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Source : Alfred Lansing (2014). “Endurance”, p.247, Perseus Books Group
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Source : Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2007). “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life”, p.6, Broadway Books
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“The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.”
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“There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.”
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