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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

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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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.
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We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.
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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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those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.
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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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Work is always an antidote to depression.
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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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The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion
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Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
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To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.
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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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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder
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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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No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
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I could never say in the morning, I have a headache and cannot do thus and so. Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
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I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
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We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
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