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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
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
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I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
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