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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!
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.
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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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We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.
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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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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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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
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Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
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You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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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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Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
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I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
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We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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