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We don't become heroes overnight. - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.
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No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
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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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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.
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Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
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It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
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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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If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.
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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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We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.
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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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I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
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One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.
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Every day do something that frightens you.
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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 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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