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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

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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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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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.
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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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The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
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To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
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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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Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.
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The purpose of life afterall is to live it.
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How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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Everybody wants something.
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Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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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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I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.
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Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
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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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