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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
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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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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.
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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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It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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No human being can ever own another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.
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Terrific minds focus on tips average minds go over activities little minds talk about people today.
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what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.
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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
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The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.
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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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We will never have peace without friendship around the world.
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What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
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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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I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.
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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Eleanor Roosevelt
