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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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Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
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The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
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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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Work is always an antidote to depression.
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To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.
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Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
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People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.
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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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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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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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The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
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The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.
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Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
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Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.
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We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
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Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.
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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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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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