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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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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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America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.
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The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
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Philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes.
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If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.
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How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
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When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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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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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.
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