I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Women must learn to play the game as men do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"I dwell in possibility."

- Emily Dickinson

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"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night."

- Edgar Allan Poe

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"Every possibility begins with the courage to imagine."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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""Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.""

- Albert Einstein

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"Why, sometimes I’ve believed six impossible things before breakfast."

- Alice in Wonderland

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