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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.
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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.
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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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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
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Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
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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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Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.
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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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America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.
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