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It's your life-but only if you make it so.

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
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It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
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If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
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You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with
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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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Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
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I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
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Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
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One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.
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To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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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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The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
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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 most important word in the English language is hope.
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A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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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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