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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?
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
Human Rights Activist
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New York City
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We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
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No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.
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Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying attention to you.
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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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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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It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
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I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.
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Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
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Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!
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One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.
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