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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

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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Ambition
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Despicable
Merit

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Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
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We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.
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