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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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One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.
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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
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It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
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A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen 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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I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few
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Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.
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I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
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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.
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.
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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
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You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
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The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
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