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It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
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 is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.
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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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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.
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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.
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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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Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.
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I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.
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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
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Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
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a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
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...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Be flexible, but stick to your principles.
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Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.
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No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
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The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
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Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
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Terrific minds focus on tips average minds go over activities little minds talk about people today.
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