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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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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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It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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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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One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
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A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.
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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.
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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
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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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Philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes.
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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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Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.
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Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.
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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
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America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.
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If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.
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