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Do something everyday that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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Scares
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Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
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The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion
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Philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
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Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.
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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
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Work is always an antidote to depression.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
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The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
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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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It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
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If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
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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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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
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You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with
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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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Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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