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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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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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Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.
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In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
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Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.
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We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
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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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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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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Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
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Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
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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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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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We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
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Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
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