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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

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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You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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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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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
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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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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.
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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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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 Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
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A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.
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The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
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The only joy in this hard life is serving others.
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You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.
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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
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To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
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