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Philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
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The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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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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It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.
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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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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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Work is always an antidote to depression.
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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
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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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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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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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Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.
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When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
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