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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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Former First Lady Of The United States
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First Lady of the world
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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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How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.
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Every day do something that frightens you.
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We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
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Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
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Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
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Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
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The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.
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