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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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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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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
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The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
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it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
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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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To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.
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Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
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A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
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Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.
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Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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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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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.
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