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Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

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
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.
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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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Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.
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Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
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I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.
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We need our radicals.
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
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All of life is a constant education.
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I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.
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One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
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All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
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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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The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion
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Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.
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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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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
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A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
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