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I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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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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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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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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The purpose of life afterall is to live it.
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When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted
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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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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young he is 'adult' he is not.
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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
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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 hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.
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it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.
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it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.
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The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
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... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
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You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
Eleanor Roosevelt
