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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
Inspirational
Candle
Light
Witty
Better
Curse
Time
Leadership
Darkness
Motivational
Hanukkah
Wise
Candlelight
Hope
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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
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experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.
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When you 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.'
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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
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You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
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I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
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it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.
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You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.
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To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.
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