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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Former First Lady Of The United States
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I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
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No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
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The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.
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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions
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What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.
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In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
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The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.
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I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.
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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.
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The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
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It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
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