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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

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
Journalist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
Circumstances
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Inspirational
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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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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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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
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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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To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.
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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
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It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
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A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
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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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It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.
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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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Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
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What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
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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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I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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