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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

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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You do the things that need to be done according to priority.
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If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
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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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Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.
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I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.
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No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
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