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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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Former First Lady Of The United States
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The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion
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Curiosity must be kept alive.
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The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
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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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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.
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Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
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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 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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If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.
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Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.
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To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
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When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
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Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
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It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
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The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.
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You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
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