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Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.
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The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
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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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No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
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True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
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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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If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.
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Philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes.
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I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.
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Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
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Men have to be reminded that women exist.
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Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
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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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