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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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True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
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I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
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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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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.
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I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.
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No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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Anger is one letter short of danger.
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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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As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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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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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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One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
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