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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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There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
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I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.
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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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Philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes.
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Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.
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The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
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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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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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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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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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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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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
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A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.
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...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.
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