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You always admire what you really don't understand. - 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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those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.
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The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
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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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it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.
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I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
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All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.
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No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.
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The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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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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People can only make you inferior with your consent.
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We need our radicals.
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The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
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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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