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It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

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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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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it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.
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No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
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Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
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The only joy in this hard life is serving others.
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As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.
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I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.
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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
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If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.
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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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The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
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We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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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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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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