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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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Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
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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.
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...without equality there can be no democracy.
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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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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
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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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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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The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
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A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
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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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People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.
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The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
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I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
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It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
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Philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes.
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I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few
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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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