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What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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Destructive
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The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
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Curiosity must be kept alive.
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
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Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.
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No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
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How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.
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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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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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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
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It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.
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Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
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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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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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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions
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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.
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