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Anger is one letter short of danger.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.
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Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
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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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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.
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People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.
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I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.
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Be flexible, but stick to your principles.
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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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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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Do one thing every day that scares you.
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I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.
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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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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes.
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To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.
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