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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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Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
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I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
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The most important word in the English language is hope.
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I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.
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Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.
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No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
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We will never have peace without friendship around the world.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.
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those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.
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The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
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On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.
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If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.
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Philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes.
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You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
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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 trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
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