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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Diplomat
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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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First Lady of the world
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
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Be flexible, but stick to your principles.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.
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I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.
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We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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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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I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
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