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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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If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
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We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
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A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
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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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