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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt
First Lady of the world
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.
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If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
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Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.
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I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
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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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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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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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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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Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.
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Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
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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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Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.
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