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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
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I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
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