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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Former First Lady Of The United States
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New York City
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First Lady of the world
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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
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Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion
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Beautiful old people are works of art.
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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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