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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.
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The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
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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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There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
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Every day do something that frightens you.
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Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
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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 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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I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
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