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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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Former First Lady Of The United States
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact, there are innumerable people who have a wide choice between saving and giving their children the best possible opportunities. The decision is usually in favor of the children.
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A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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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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About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.
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You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
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I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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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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Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.
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Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
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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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