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On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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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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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.
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Everybody wants something.
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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.
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I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.
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Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.
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A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
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The most important word in the English language is hope.
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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
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I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.
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