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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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New York City
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No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
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...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.
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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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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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Everybody wants something.
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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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The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
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No one can move without some leadership.
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No human being can ever own another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.
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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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As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
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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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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
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All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.
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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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The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
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