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It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
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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New York City
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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
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If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.
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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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Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.
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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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Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.
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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.
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Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.
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We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
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A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
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Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
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Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
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Do one thing every day that scares you.
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Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
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Everybody wants something.
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