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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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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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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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
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There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.
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The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.
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those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.
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No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
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Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.
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I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.
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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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Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.
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The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
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No one can move without some leadership.
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
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Philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes.
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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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Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
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