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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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No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
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What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.
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The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
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We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.
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As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
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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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Every day do something that frightens you.
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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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I never waste time looking back.
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.
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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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Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
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One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.
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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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