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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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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
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I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
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When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
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This is a time for action not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
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We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.
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Anger is one letter short of danger.
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I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.
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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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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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Everybody wants something.
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I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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The only joy in this hard life is serving others.
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The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.
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