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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.
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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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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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To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.
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How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
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... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
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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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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.
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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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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 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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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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...without equality there can be no democracy.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
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I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.
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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
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