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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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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
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Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
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Work is always an antidote to depression.
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It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
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Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
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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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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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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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Be flexible, but stick to your principles.
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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
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Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.
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If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.
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To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.
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I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.
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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
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Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
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