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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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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
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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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The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
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A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
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When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.
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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.
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Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.
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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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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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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.
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We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
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I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.
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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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Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!
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People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.
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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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