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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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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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I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
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