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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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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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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
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I could never say in the morning, I have a headache and cannot do thus and so. Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.
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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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A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
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As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
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If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
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Anger is one letter short of danger.
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I never waste time looking back.
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
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