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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
Waste
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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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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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Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
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Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.
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Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.
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The most important word in the English language is hope.
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying attention to you.
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You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
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No one can move without some leadership.
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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.
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Be flexible, but stick to your principles.
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When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted
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To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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Courage is exhilarating.
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How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.
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