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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

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
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
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Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.
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I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.
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Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
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People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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...without equality there can be no democracy.
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.
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Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.
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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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