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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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Former First Lady Of The United States
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It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
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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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It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder
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Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.
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I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.
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It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.
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A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
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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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Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.
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It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
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About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.
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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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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
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Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.
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You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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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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Be flexible, but stick to your principles.
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