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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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Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.
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One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.
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The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
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Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
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Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.
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Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
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The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
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We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
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it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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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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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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Every day do something that frightens you.
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Courage is exhilarating.
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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.
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It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
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