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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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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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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
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Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!
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