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Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.
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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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One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.
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We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
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What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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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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I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
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No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
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You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.
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How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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