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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.
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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New York City
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
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The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
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Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.
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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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This is a time for action not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
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It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.
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The purpose of life afterall is to live it.
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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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
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We don't become heroes overnight. - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
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A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
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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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Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
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The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
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I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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