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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
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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New York City
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Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
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... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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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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Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
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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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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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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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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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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.
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