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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
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Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.
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Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
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The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
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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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It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
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experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
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it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.
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We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
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The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.
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It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
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Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
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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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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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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
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