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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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Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
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Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.
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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.
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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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We don't become heroes overnight. - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
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The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
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