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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
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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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All of life is a constant education.
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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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How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.
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I never waste time looking back.
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.
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I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.
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You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
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Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
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The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
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Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.
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No one can move without some leadership.
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The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
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