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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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Diplomat
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
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... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
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You do the things that need to be done according to priority.
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No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
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Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.
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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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Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.
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I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.
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Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
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In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
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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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To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.
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What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.
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A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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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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I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.
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