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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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People can only make you inferior with your consent.
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The only joy in this hard life is serving others.
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Do something everyday that scares you.
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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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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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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
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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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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
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To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
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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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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
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The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
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This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
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It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.
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One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
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The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.
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