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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
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
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First Lady of the world
Death
Character
Life
Infancy
Continues
Begins
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We don't become heroes overnight. - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
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When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
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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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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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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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On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.
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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
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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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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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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We will never have peace without friendship around the world.
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I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
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This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
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