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It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

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
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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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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America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.
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Curiosity must be kept alive.
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It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.
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There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.
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I never waste time looking back.
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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
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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 as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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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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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
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Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
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Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.
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You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
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Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.
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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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Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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