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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
Evil
Power
Hard
Corrupts
Learning
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Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.
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We must do that which we think we cannot.
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If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
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You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
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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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Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
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The most important word in the English language is hope.
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It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
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No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
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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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The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
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The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
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Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.
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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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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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Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
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