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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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I never waste time looking back.
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There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
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Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
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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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A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.
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About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.
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If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.
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It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
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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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Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
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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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This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
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Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.
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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
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Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
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I could never say in the morning, I have a headache and cannot do thus and so. Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
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