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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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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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The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
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You do the things that need to be done according to priority.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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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 leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.
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the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young he is 'adult' he is not.
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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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Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
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The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.
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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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those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.
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A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
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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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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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One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
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