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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
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Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
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Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.
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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
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A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.
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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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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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The purpose of life afterall is to live it.
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I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.
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If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.
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Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.
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As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
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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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Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
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I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.
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I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
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Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
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To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
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