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Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

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
Human Rights Activist
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Peace Activist
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True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
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As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did 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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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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Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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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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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
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Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
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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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Curiosity must be kept alive.
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If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
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