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...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
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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I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
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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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No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
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This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
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Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
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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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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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What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.
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Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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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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About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.
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I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
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Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.
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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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A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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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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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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