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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

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
Journalist
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New York City
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
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There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
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When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
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The purpose of life afterall is to live it.
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When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.
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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
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You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
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One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
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it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.
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Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
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Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
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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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I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.
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