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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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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New York City
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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
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To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.
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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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Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
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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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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
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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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Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
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Work is always an antidote to depression.
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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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