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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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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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The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
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You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
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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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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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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
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Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
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Work is always an antidote to depression.
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You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
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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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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.
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As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
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Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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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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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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