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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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Anger is one letter short of danger.
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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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In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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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 am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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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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If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.
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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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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
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No human being can ever own another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.
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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions
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Do something everyday that scares you.
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The most important word in the English language is hope.
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If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
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