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All of life is a constant education.

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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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
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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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Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.
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Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.
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Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
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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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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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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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What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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No human being can ever own another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.
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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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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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