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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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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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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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If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.
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Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!
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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
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We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.
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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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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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Beautiful old people are works of art.
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In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
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Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
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If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
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How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
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I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.
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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
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The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
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