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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
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Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.
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Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.
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I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.
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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.
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The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
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As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.
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We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
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Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
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Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.
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