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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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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.
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If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.
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I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.
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All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.
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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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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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We will never have peace without friendship around the world.
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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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One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
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The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
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To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.
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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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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
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If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.
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